You're mistaken. "Multiverse" and "Restricted" on their servers, as well as every mirror that hosts Ubuntu, distributes these codecs and other non-free things on their servers. Take a look at 'ubuntu-restricted-extras' in the Multiverse repo on their servers (packages.ubuntu.com) to see some of the things they are distributing and maintaining for users. On Tue, 2008-04-22 at 19:29 -0400, max bianco wrote: > On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 6:57 PM, Francis Earl <lunitik@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Yes, despite it's legal ramifications... far better to risk your company > > to appease users. It's not like it's not available for Fedora, but Red > > Hat doesn't risk the future of the company on it. > > > > Google for 'Microsoft billion mp3' > > > > Mark is rich, but that's about 3 times his worth right there... he isn't > > licensing MP3 or any other codec for his distro, Microsoft just licensed > > it from the wrong people. > > > > Now wonder consider ffmpeg for instance has Apple codecs, mpg2/4 and > > Microsoft codecs just to name a few, and ask yourself whether it's smart > > to distribute this stuff. > > > > Only reason he gets away with it is because Ubuntu represents such a low > > market share that it's not worth it today. > > > I don't know that making it easy to access qualifies as distribution. > Ubuntu used to say on their home page that they only shipped free > software(OSS) , has this changed or am I mistaken? > > Max > -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
