Re: Fedora Desktop future- RedHat moves

On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 6:57 PM, Francis Earl <lunitik@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Yes, despite it's legal ramifications... far better to risk your company
to appease users. It's not like it's not available for Fedora, but Red
Hat doesn't risk the future of the company on it.

Google for 'Microsoft billion mp3'

Mark is rich, but that's about 3 times his worth right there... he isn't
licensing MP3 or any other codec for his distro, Microsoft just licensed
it from the wrong people.

Now wonder consider ffmpeg for instance has Apple codecs, mpg2/4 and
Microsoft codecs just to name a few, and ask yourself whether it's smart
to distribute this stuff.

Only reason he gets away with it is because Ubuntu represents such a low
market share that it's not worth it today.

I don't know that making it easy to access qualifies as distribution.
Ubuntu used to say on their home page that they only shipped free
software(OSS) , has this changed or am I mistaken?

Max

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