-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 05 December 2003 04:36, Trevor Smith wrote: > OK, wait a minute... > > There is no *legal* way to listen to MP3s in Linux? There is no free > player? > > What exactly is the licensing issue we're talking about here? The exact issue is that RHAT have $300M in the bank cash, and they do not want to allow SCOmbags and other creatures the opportunity to shake them down because of potential licensing trouble. When you look at what a great job they do allowing top-drawer developers to contribute to Linux, and their (expensive) legal defense of Linux against SCO, I think they made the right choices. MP3 addons are available from the other repos, and one day I bet we will see one or more 'tracking distros' of Fedora (they won't be called Fedora or have any RH art on them) which have these things added on already.... these will be run by the community which has no deep pockets to attack. - -Andy -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/0MDKjKeDCxMJCTIRAr61AJ0dOv4V+feqjAWeXA2/3zroUYajdACdFXeT 8fI6BHayvRzjGnjh/Xyb460= =Yckr -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
