Johnny Hughes wrote:
Very normal ... Red Hat is a US based company and the Source RPMs that they provide do not play MP3's This is because it is currently a patent violation in the USA to distribute an MP3 player without licensing it through at least 2 companies. See this link for background: http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070222-8910.html Being that I do not have a spare $1.52 billion dollars lying around to be able to distribute MP3 playing technology either ... you'll have to figure out how to enable MP3's in CentOS 5 via google :P Before anyone starts complaining and whining about the USA and it's patent laws, etc., etc. ... I do not like software patents, I think they suck too ... everyone at CentOS thinks they suck ... HOWEVER, I still don't have $1.52 dollars, so we will continue not shipping an MP3 player in CentOS.
OK Johnny, I know the stupid software patent issues and their effects against progress (it is like patenting colour combinations in paintings). Consider the famous one mouse click check out patent for buying products on-line.
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