On Tuesday 20 March 2007, Res wrote: >On Tue, 20 Mar 2007, 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. > >The avg user does not give a shit about the politics of it, they just > want to do it! > >this legal bullshit argument has been had out on this list so many times >ive lost count, the end of it is if we are to convert win users to > linux, forget fedora, because like it or not, they want to play there > mp3's and fedora does not allow that out of the box, remembering most > win uses are non technical savvy and wont want to go to hassle of > qadding in this repo, adn that repo to geet other stuff their win box > currently does by default, like 99% of other linux distros also do by > default, if one doesnt do it by default, they look elsewhere, thats the > facts, I here it every day in my attempt to convert, so I no longer > recommend fedora. > The facts are the facts, and your ranting about it here on this list is not only unwelcome, it is to the wrong messenger. Take this BS to your congress-critters. ONLY they can fix it. This list can do without the rant. There are workarounds that google, legal to do so or not, will lead you to. Use them. >-- >Cheers >Res > > >Let Novell known what you think of their back door deal with the devil. >Sign the petition today: http://techp.org/p/1/ -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Q: What's the difference between a Mac and an Etch-a-Sketch? A: You don't have to shake the Mac to clear the screen.
