On Sun, 2008-04-27 at 11:44 -0700, Antonio Olivares wrote: > --- Francis Earl <lunitik@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Apparently some of the MP3 patents are supposedly > > > dying out, but not so soon :( > > > > > > > > > http://www.tunequest.org/a-big-list-of-mp3-patents/20070226/ > > > > I was under the impression they were expiring around > > 2010, thank you for > > that link. The big one there is Alcatel-Lucent as > > they are the guys > > really throwing their muscle around. > > > > > As for the apple Ipod, and others they can get > > hacked > > > and unpaid music can be placed onto them. I have > > some > > > students that are very bright in this area, they > > put > > > music onto cell phones without paying for the > > music. > > > They are sharp with computers and electronics but > > ask > > > them about academics and they do not answer. They > > do > > > need to be dissapointed with Apple as they do not > > care > > > what they do, they know that someone, somewhere is > > > working to ensure that they can do other things > > that > > > Apple did not want them to do. :) > > > > While such things are always possible, it doesn't > > make it a good thing. > > You can actually get your iPod working on your Linux > > box though, it is > > the codecs and the related copyrights that are bad. > > Just because your > > students get away with breaking the law, doesn't > > mean it would be smart > > for RedHat to facilitate that...> > Agreed :) By the same token they shouldn't be actively making it difficult either. There is a balance to be struck here- both sides of this take away freedom from the user to choose and put in place what they want. In this case Fedora and non-free software are at extremes. A lot of distros are finding (or at least trying to) the very fine balance in between. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
