codec buddy pain

[seth vidal]

On Mon, 2007-11-05 at 15:28 -0500, Greg DeKoenigsberg wrote:
> On Mon, 5 Nov 2007, seth vidal wrote:
> 
> > That's what codeina has done - but it's brought something else into 
> > relief. We have this software in the distro now that a big portion of is 
> > providing a window for advertisements for closed-source codecs from 
> > another company.
> >
> > That's the precedent that concerns me.
> 
> So which is the worse scenario?
> 
> 1. Providing no support at all to MP3 users?
> 
> 2. Encouraging MP3 users to break the law?
> 
> 3. Pointing MP3 users to a legal solution that privileges a particular 
> vendor -- with the possibility of including other vendors later?
> 
> There are no easy answers here.  If there we're, we'd have solved the 
> problem by now.

imo it would be best to provide mp3 decode support via codeina, only and
not provide the for-pay links to the other codecs.

-sv