On 2 November 2011 20:02, Bruno Wolff III <bruno@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 02, 2011 at 18:36:04 +0000, > Ian Malone <ibmalone@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> Lastly, media friendliness: Fedora, again by choice, includes only >> software that can be described as free and open source, this excludes >> several things such as mp3 playback from the core system. There are >> easy solutions to this these days (just set up rpmfusion), but it does >> represent an extra level of difficulty (on the other hand, it isn't >> really difficult and might be a useful first exercise for somebody >> wanting to learn how things work). Ubuntu tends to include everything >> they think they can get away with. > > Not not just Free software, but also unemcumbered by patents. The problem > with mp3 software is not that there isn't Free software that that can > encode/decode sound into the mp3 codec, but that the codec is patented > and patent owners do not permit free redistribution of code to use it. > True, but I thought I shouldn't overcomplicate an already long email by getting into a discussion about how you define free (or Free) software. Hence 'free and open source'. -- imalone -- 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
