From: "Davy Brion" <ralinx(a)pandora.be>
I know Red Hat can't support this stuff in Fedora from a legal
point of
view, but it is hurting linux adoption IMHO. No matter how much better
our alternatives are (like Ogg Vorbis for instance), if we can't support
what other people are using, a lot of people simply won't care about how
much better our alternatives are. I'm talking about regular people.
The kind of people who don't even know a site is using Flash, or what
MP3 or MPEG is all about... they simply don't care. And if Linux
systems don't support these technologies, to them it will seem as if
Linux can't do as much as Windows can.
We may have the best technology, but you can't expect people to use it
if they don't want to use it.
Case in point: Betamax VCR's versus VHS. Beta was better, but people
didn't switch because they already had VHS...
Ben