Why is Fedora a multimedia disaster? - Here is why.

[Rex Dieter]

Paul Osunero wrote:
> You know, I've been wondering why Red Hat hasn't tried to pay royalty
> for media codecs.  I'm pretty sure they have enough money for it...

They could, for rhel, but that goes against Fedora's principles/objectives.

> Or mabye there are legal issues with including patented technology with
> Linux/GNU software?

One more: redistributability.  One of Fedora's objectives is to be fully
redistributable (ie, so folks can spin their own Fedora-based distros).
 Paid-for codecs are (generally) distributable only by the party that
bought/paid-for them.

-- Rex