Tom spot Callaway (tcallawa@xxxxxxxxxx) said: > > If the only legal way for a user to access their own data is via > > software that comes with a patent license, I don't have that big of > > an issue pointing to that along with whatever brainwashing/education/beethoven > > we want to subject them to. > > Which other proprietary apps should we link to? Acrobat opens PDFs that > evince doesn't. What about flash? It is perfectly possible to fix evince to open PDFs that it can't now. It is perfectly possible to fix your flash-clone-of-choice to display flash documents[*]. It is *not possible* to, legally, in some areas, fix open software to play certain media files. And this should be a big point in our user-reeducation program. But, either you tell your users to sod off, or you let them legally go about their business. Bill [*] Well, aside from the media codecs. Doh. _______________________________________________ fedora-advisory-board mailing list fedora-advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board
