Craig White wrote:
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.
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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
Craig, you've not been exactly an angel in tossing out insults in the
past, so I'll just consider the source and let the schmuck thing ride.
And I'd wager that had he been aware of it, he may have been able to
exert some influence over eweeks postings. However, I doubt the subject
(ogg vs mp3) ever crossed his mind as there are more important fish to
fry in terms of his daily grind. Its just one of the niggling little
details that someone in his position just assumes has been properly
delegated.
If you want that to be an apology, take it that way as its as close as
you'll get from me on this particular subject. It was a detail that
*should* have been handled, and wasn't. OTOH, if he wanted to make sure
the winderz folks could play it, then he did indeed make his point and
I'm just preaching to the choir. In any event, other than calling
attention to an apparent up-yours to open source, this discussion is
fruitless.
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Cheers, Gene
