On Wednesday 01 December 2004 10:58, Scott Talbot wrote: > Not to start a war, but AFAIK, DMCA has only been used to stop a > company from distributing a software that would copy DVD's (that was > it's intended purpose). Wasn't there a Swede named Johanson or similar who got dudded over this? His software had legal uses but could also be used illegally. > The reason Red Hat won't include a DVD player is the same as the > reason they don't ship an MP3 player, i.e. the formats are not open source. > This is the stated purpose of Fedora, to put together a Distro of > completely Open source products. I b'lieve he problem with mp3 is patents. Altogether a different animal. -- Cheers John Summerfield tourist pics: http://environmental.disaster.cds.merseine.nu/
