Gene Heskett wrote: > Ed Greshko wrote: >> nicola -kOoLiNuS- losito wrote: >>> Il giorno sab, 17/06/2006 alle 05.45 -0400, taharka ha scritto: >>>> In this UpFront podcast, Red Hat Chairman, president and CEO Matthew >>>> Szulik talks with eWeek Editorial Director Eric Lundquist about Red >>>> Hat's purchase of JBoss, the future of open source and Szulik's >>>> interest >>>> in reviving the U.S. education system. >>>> >>>> Podcast download in MP3 format at; >>>> http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1978108,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03129TX1K0000616 >>>> >>> >>> Uhm ... >>> Houston, seems we've got a problem :-) >>> >>> [hint: mp3 thing up over there] >> >> And your RealPlayer can't play it? >> > Firefox called up the mplayer plugin, which worked just fine. My > problem with this is more religious than anything else. > > Why, for heavens sake, should the president of RedHat, who does not > ship an mp3 capability in any distribution for patent reasons, allow > this to be offered on the net in that format, when there are good > alternatives in the form of ogg, which I suspect FC5 comes preconfigured > to play just fine. Because he doesn't/can't control what Ziff Davis/eweek.com does? > That it was allowed, speaks volumes for his 'commitment' to open source. Seriously, we aren't going to start a 3rd thread on this and rehash this to death again? Are we? -- So... did you ever wonder, do garbagemen take showers before they go to work?
