This is not indended as a practical solution or idea (the thought occured to me after a morning espresso fix): Imagine a small computing device (USB powered memory stick form factor), containing a processor and memory just powerful enough to transcode proprietary, patent encumbered media formats into non-patent encumbered format (note: often transcoding does not require the CPU resources of a complete decode). The device contains proprietary (but flashable) firmware with technology licenced from the various rights holders. From a licencing standpoint it's just like a consumer DVD player but without all the hardware -- the patent encumbered firmware is confined to the smallest possible computing space. </fantasy> :-) Joe. On 3/29/06, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 2006-03-29 at 00:27 -0500, Rowan Kerr wrote: > > Eric S. Raymond wrote: > > > OK. So the next question is, do *Red Hat's* goals no longer include > > > world desktop domination? Because if that's true, I need to find a distro > > > that hasn't ... er ... lost its idealism. > > Now when does including mp3 decoders in Fedora equate to world desktop > domination by Red Hat or idealism? You have every reason to stutter > there being a open source evangelist - perceived or otherwise. > > > > > This is what I have been concerned about for a while now. It looks like > > the next commercial version of Suse will have all kinds of media support > > through RealPlayer instead of the FOSS-only HelixPlayer. What will the > > next version of RHEL provide? > > Thats a irrelevant discussion for Fedora-devel list really. > > > Rahul > > -- > fedora-devel-list mailing list > fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list > -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
