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by raverbashing 2164 days ago
> in addition to a new copy of Visual Studio 6.0 (which I need to compile and run the decss program to decode my DVD's so that I can play them under Linux)

Why would you need VS6 to compile a program for Linux?
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ArgyleSound 2164 days ago
He was compiling a Windows program to decode his DVDs so that he could play them on Linux
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0x0 2164 days ago
DeCSS was a windows-only program back in those days.
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Lammy 2163 days ago
Also, because it's a joke and is funny :p
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