Fedora Desktop future- RedHat moves

[Francis Earl]

You're mistaken. "Multiverse" and "Restricted" on their servers, as well
as every mirror that hosts Ubuntu, distributes these codecs and other
non-free things on their servers.

Take a look at 'ubuntu-restricted-extras' in the Multiverse repo on
their servers (packages.ubuntu.com) to see some of the things they are
distributing and maintaining for users.

On Tue, 2008-04-22 at 19:29 -0400, max bianco wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 6:57 PM, Francis Earl <lunitik at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Yes, despite it's legal ramifications... far better to risk your company
> > to appease users. It's not like it's not available for Fedora, but Red
> > Hat doesn't risk the future of the company on it.
> >
> > Google for 'Microsoft billion mp3'
> >
> > Mark is rich, but that's about 3 times his worth right there... he isn't
> > licensing MP3 or any other codec for his distro, Microsoft just licensed
> > it from the wrong people.
> >
> > Now wonder consider ffmpeg for instance has Apple codecs, mpg2/4 and
> > Microsoft codecs just to name a few, and ask yourself whether it's smart
> > to distribute this stuff.
> >
> > Only reason he gets away with it is because Ubuntu represents such a low
> > market share that it's not worth it today.
> >
> I don't know that making it easy to access qualifies as distribution.
> Ubuntu used to say on their home page that they only shipped free
> software(OSS) , has this changed or am I mistaken?
> 
> Max
>