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

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• From: David Boles <dgboles@xxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 21:23:00 -0700
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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...
> 
> Or mabye there are legal issues with including patented technology with
> Linux/GNU software?

>snip<

How much would you be willing to pay for codecs and then give them away for
free?

-- 

  David

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