fre, 20 07 2007 kl. 00:41 -0700, skrev David Boles: > on 7/19/2007 11:31 PM, Karsten Wade wrote: > > On Thu, 2007-07-19 at 22:30 -0500, Mike McGrath wrote: > > > >> "In this article, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes points out why he keeps giving > >> money to Microsoft and Apple despite the clear advantages of Linux: the > >> scary legalese dialogs you have to click through > > > > Maybe a scary warning in simpletonese, like a pack of cigarettes: "If > > you smoke this MP3 codec, it will eat your brane and come back for > > dessert." > > <lurk mode off> > > I have watched this thread, as well as many others like this, from the > outside. As an ordinary user and not as programmer/maintainer/developer > which I am not. An ordinary user point of view. Linux for a long time. > Fedora since FC-2. > > I do understand the Fedora FOSS policy and I do agree with it. > > But what needs to be said, once again, by an ordinary user is this. > > Be careful what you offer to provide a 'lead to' or a 'go here for this'. > Truly. Most, surely *not* all, of the people that want these types of > codecs and plugins to play, for example, mp3 music files or DVDs movies, > will be using these to listen to and play pirated (Bittorrent) music and > movies. And most, again surely not all, would be more than happy to > steal/violate/'call it whatever you wish' to be able to do so. > > Do you really want to promote that? > > Here I back out and put: > > <lurk mode on> Are you basically suggesting Fedora start becoming the thought police here. "I'm sorry sir we object morally to what _might_ be your intend as it _might_ be in violation with the law". That would just be disgustingly anti-freedom, what's next will OpenOffice be monitoring what I'm typing to ensure that I'm not making ransom notes? Should I mention that I own a skimask and a crowbar.. are you telling me the hardware store should have stopped me from buying them together out of the fear that I might be procuring them for breaking and entering rather than for the purpose of tearing down my shed? - David 'No longer 2 sheds' Nielsen
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