From: "Davy Brion" <ralinx@xxxxxxxxxx> > 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. Case in point: Betamax VCR's versus VHS. Beta was better, but people didn't switch because they already had VHS... Ben
