On Fri, 2005-12-23 at 15:29 +0100, Thomas Vander Stichele wrote: > On Fri, 2005-12-23 at 18:41 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > > Hi > > > > > > > > On the positive side, I think Fedora is allowed now to write in FAQ or > > > release notes: "to play mp3 files, go to this specific Fluendo page, > > > click and install the rpm" > > > > > We could have done that with RealPlayer long before. We dont do that > > since we dont support proprietary formats. If you want a Free software > > platform be prepared to support and use a Free and superior format like > > Ogg. Thats my take on it. > > I think that's a great and courageous statement to make. The reason > we're giving away this plug-in, legally, is because we feel users and > distributions should be given the choice to allow their users to migrate > from closed to open formats. Not to mention there are very few portable players that support ogg. Support for mp3 in portable players is everywhere. I'm very excited about this - it would be really nice if Red Hat was able to purchase a distribution license - assuming that there would be no issues of third parties continuing to distribute official (sha1sum matching) iso's. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
