On Sat, 16 Oct 2010 18:48:28 +0200 Valent Turkovic <valent.turkovic@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Audio and video codecs including flash are preinstalled. We are going > the path of Linux Mint to make user experience best as possible right > out of the box, and for not that means also including few non-open > components. As soon as they become redundant we will drop them for > open source ones. But unfortunately for now there must be few > proprietary pieces in order to make linux destop usable for non geeks > and non developers ie. regular users. > > I did a search a few years ago, and I think the patents on mpeg start to expire next year and continue to expire in dribs and drabs over the next few years. I suspect that is part of the reason for the new proprietary video standard being proposed for html5. ;-) So you should be home free in a couple of years. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
