-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 hi I agree with this but at the same time I disagree. I completely agree that installing codecs should be easier. On the other hand, I'm sympothetic to fedora's awkward position. If they made installing these codecs easier or installed them by default, even though the software to play them is open source, they could find themselves on the bad end of an riaa or mpaa lawsuit. Redhat might win, but it would be spending money they could be spending improving linux on stupid and pointless court battles. It's why I've converted all my media to open codecs, ogg or opus, even stuff that I originally got in patent encumbered mp3 formats and others. Is this an option for everyone? Absolutely not, since I know enough about how linux works to know how, but not everyone will. It's a complicated and thorny issue that I have no answers to. I'll also point out that some distributions, notably ubuntu, used to offer a solution by advertising an "officially" sanctioned method, which involved shelling out money for a blob from fluendo to play the mp3 codec, which, while avoiding a lawsuit, completely defeats the purpose of open source software. This is not an option for fedora, and I hope they never consider this. I'd honestly rather the lawsuit than that solution. Thanks Kendell clark Sent from Fedora GNU/Linux pravin.d.s@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > On 8 May 2015 at 01:57, Elad Alfassa <elad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > >> On Thu, May 7, 2015 at 9:41 PM, drago01 <drago01@xxxxxxxxx> >> wrote: >>> Its getting worse RF does not have a repo for F22 which means >>> once it is released even RF won't be an easy option for a >>> while. >>> >> >> >> I don't know how to solve these issues. I know there's a >> complicated legal background for all of this, but what I do know >> is: 1) People should be able to play music and videos 2) People >> shouldn't need to sacrifice their safety to play music and >> videos 3) People shouldn't need to have special knowledge about >> how their OS works to perform these basic tasks. >> >> > Well said !! I did F21 release party and users were asking same > thing before switching to Fedora. Other distros looks like handling > this better way. > > Regards, Pravin Satpute > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJVTGegAAoJEGYgJ5/kqBTd/4UP/3fPG+6f3a34OxiYvmLGxAwK gI0bmMcAvRnr0h2WCPeCBsfvQK4b6YhJxh+hqTFuxxyDkrWPrsLvmTtGXZla2DCg kvIte+phkE7VRtWcq4/jqBf/wWpzfDuFxsl0+9Y6vZvuh90ajCbLGmRrvIqSBHPB BLss6NkW2btAVD7N4i6anjkpEcyYmiuG2oqPEX/6YUy82hSIKmzzgJja5zEdg5p6 biQK3Sjx+PClERMiNtkiq5PUqXR2YWVDy7TXK0iVO35hshPsi3fbfWePbssMi8cM 5x/NfME/ZvmFvTmCaXjgf6Fki6Bvm6wjeSY1kuwXH6/oGWUMGXqbuYLyM4f2GWJA DrZjh8JHLr+9aqXGvRJ+HN3srdzNPGfWCoRG2AwcrYjRODiOBK9lGpdQNAe4jjb6 WkElqq43vM5E3WX94mHnggwloLtxVIVvqkt5JSXGzfgTI+tVF73bOAJAmD+G93vE WPRdJ+hJTrtv9i+9vOJOYOfgxm8VSNB8/BeHTT4W6mR5odToNZ5+RJXr7d36VXjC hDS7R03XsV54yEvoFSICxrM0vGwEQAwk1JQFzqGm9eYtKk2I60hlyU6iR3a86mRq HtROBB/Tei1WTP1EGBuY8/NQ5CDW956+yMUel0HXY7mOIDVKLUXrwY9qEeJGXD5Q NHCBspcOgaUB/yHlf4k5 =fU26 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- desktop mailing list desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop
