Re: Fedora Desktop future- RedHat moves

It has everything to do with legalities, as the source code for the
encoders/decoders is available.

On Tue, 2008-04-22 at 18:36 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
On Tue, 2008-04-22 at 15:57 -0700, Francis Earl 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.

AFAIK he doesn't "distribute" it (for some meaning of "distribute"),
just makes it easy to get. I may be wrong (and I've no interest in
arguing about it), but I think the Fedora rationale for not doing the
same thing has more to do with avoiding lockin than avoiding lawsuits.

poc

On Tue, 2008-04-22 at 18:08 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
On Tue, 2008-04-22 at 14:29 -0700, Francis Earl wrote:
The only real benefits of Ubuntu are proprietary drivers by default, and
easier access to patent encumbered codecs... catering to users so much
is why Ubuntu is so popular... no other reason.

How dare they offer something that users want :-)

poc




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