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

[Les Mikesell]

Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> On 4/28/07, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Rex Dieter wrote:
>> > 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.
>> >
>>
>> Why doesn't anyone ever mention realplayer (http://www.real.com/linux)
>> as a solution for people who want a legal player for their own use and
>> aren't interested in source code or being a software distributer?  It
>> isn't quite itunes, but at least they are trying to make something
>> usable for linux.
> 
> 
> I believe a lot of people hate RealPlayer in a cross-platform manner.

And the other choices that provide a free, legal, rpm-packaged player 
that you can download for linux would be?

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com