Ubuntu 1, Fedora 0
Gene Heskett
gene.heskett at verizon.net
Tue Mar 20 20:08:38 UTC 2007
On Tuesday 20 March 2007, Res wrote:
>On Tue, 20 Mar 2007, Ingemar Nilsson wrote:
>> Res <res at ausics.net> writes:
>>> Really? Thats why Ubuntu will let me do *anything* I want, and that
>>> means even play mp3's anytime I damned well want without going to
>>> third party repos, I think I know which distro has respect for my
>>> freedom, my freedom to do what I want, play what I want, when I want,
>>
>> The reason why Fedora does not ship codecs for popular media formats
>> such as mp3 and mpeg is not ideological, but legal. Those formats are
>> patented in the United States, and shipping them anyway would expose
>> Fedora and Fedora's parent company Red Hat to greatly increased legal
>> risks. Microsoft just felt that risk, beging forced to hand over 1.2
>> billion dollars after a court judgement. Also remember that knowingly
>> infringing carries triple damages.
>
>The avg user does not give a shit about the politics of it, they just
> want to do it!
>
>this legal bullshit argument has been had out on this list so many times
>ive lost count, the end of it is if we are to convert win users to
> linux, forget fedora, because like it or not, they want to play there
> mp3's and fedora does not allow that out of the box, remembering most
> win uses are non technical savvy and wont want to go to hassle of
> qadding in this repo, adn that repo to geet other stuff their win box
> currently does by default, like 99% of other linux distros also do by
> default, if one doesnt do it by default, they look elsewhere, thats the
> facts, I here it every day in my attempt to convert, so I no longer
> recommend fedora.
>
The facts are the facts, and your ranting about it here on this list is
not only unwelcome, it is to the wrong messenger. Take this BS to your
congress-critters. ONLY they can fix it. This list can do without the
rant. There are workarounds that google, legal to do so or not, will
lead you to. Use them.
>--
>Cheers
>Res
>
>
>Let Novell known what you think of their back door deal with the devil.
>Sign the petition today: http://techp.org/p/1/
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Cheers, Gene
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