On Sun, 2006-06-18 at 05:33 -0500, 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. > > That it was allowed, speaks volumes for his 'commitment' to open source. ---- could you be any more of a schmuck? He doesn't have any control over the formats that eweek uses to put content on the Internet. Craig
