On Sat, 2004-05-22 at 05:43, Davy Brion wrote: > as good as that sounds, it's not a very realistic view. People want to > share multimedia files. I'm not talking about warez but a lot of > regular computer users often like to share fun stuff with other people. > This stuff could be sites they find amusing, a song they like, a funny > movie clip, etc... And unfortunately, those files usually are mp3, > flash, mpeg, etc. > > I know Red Hat can't support this stuff in Fedora from a legal point of > view, but it is hurting linux adoption IMHO. No matter how much better > our alternatives are (like Ogg Vorbis for instance), if we can't support > what other people are using, a lot of people simply won't care about how > much better our alternatives are. I'm talking about regular people. > The kind of people who don't even know a site is using Flash, or what > MP3 or MPEG is all about... they simply don't care. And if Linux > systems don't support these technologies, to them it will seem as if > Linux can't do as much as Windows can. > > We may have the best technology, but you can't expect people to use it > if they don't want to use it. > > Just my 2 cents. Reminds me of an old joke. Cray Computers (big super computer manufacturer) builds a computer the size of wrist watch with 100GB memory, 1 terabyte of disk storage, running multiple processors at 100GHz each, and able to produce and sell them for $1000 a piece. What is the first question everyone asks? "Does it run Windows?" -- Scot L. Harris <webid@xxxxxxxxxx>
