Re: [opensuse] Re: [opensuse-announce] openSUSE 10.3 available

As highlights, we'd like to point out the latest desktops, GNOME
2.20 and KDE 3.5.7 plus KDE 4 preview, our MP3 support via
gstreamer plug-in by Fluendo, a faster boot process, heavily
optimised and improved package

Does this make openSUSE the _first_ Linux distribution to provide
legal MP3 decoding as an integral part of the distribution? (or did I
miss something?) If so, is this being promoted as a big deal? I
think it probably should be.

[snip]

BTW was there an answer to the question of the legality of MP3s or are
we going w/ Novel's licensure of Realplayer?

Well... I think this was an answer of sorts.... the announcement
stated that openSUSE 10.3 comes with the Fluendo MP3 decoder. This is
the legal MP3 decoder option for Linux. You can buy it from
Fluendo... but the announcement says it's included in 10.3. This is a
big deal - to moe anyway. It wasn't really hyped... at least not
anywhere I've seen outside of the email announcement.

C
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