Re: Ubuntu 1, Fedora 0

[Jimmy Bradley <bmobile40@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

    I don't know what kind of agreement Mandriva/Mandrake has, but their distro will play MP3 files. You still have to download and install libdvdcss in order to play dvd's though. I run a number of different distros on my machines. 5 machines, five different distros, and each one has it's good points and bad points. I have yet to find a distro that is totally perfect.
just my 2cents worth
Jim
On Tue, 2007-03-20 at 12:32 +0100, Ingemar Nilsson wrote:
> Res <res@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > Really? Thats why Ubuntu will let me do *anything* I want, and that
> > means even play mp3's anytime I damned well want without going to
> > third party repos, I think I know which distro has respect for my
> > freedom, my freedom to do what I want, play what I want, when I want,
>
> The reason why Fedora does not ship codecs for popular media formats such
> as mp3 and mpeg is not ideological, but legal. Those formats are patented
> in the United States, and shipping them anyway would expose Fedora and
> Fedora's parent company Red Hat to greatly increased legal risks. Microsoft
> just felt that risk, beging forced to hand over 1.2 billion dollars after a
> court judgement. Also remember that knowingly infringing carries triple
> damages.
>
> Do you actually expect Red Hat to knowingly carry out a gross violation of
> US law just to satisfy some whining users?
>
> Regards
> Ingemar