Les Mikesell wrote:
Hans de Goede wrote:
Ah, comeone "Highlighting the cost is part of the message that codeina
provides to the end users" ?? Thats just plain nonsense, the linking
to must pay for codecs in codina is plain and simply _bad_, but for
some reason condoned because the codec issue is a big problem for
end users, so having some very ugly work around is seen as ok in
this situation.
Is there any other alternative for users in areas with software
patent laws (besides breaking the law or not using fedora, of course)?
Yes not play patent encumbered formats, just like we don't do hardware
3D accel for nvidea cards, that would be inline with Fedoras founding
principles, codina is not!
That translates to not using fedora to me. Or any other OS that tries to
intentionally limit what I can do with it. You can't be a dictator when
other choices are available.
You either misunderstood me or are deliberately misrepresenthing things here.
I'm not saying we should at measures to make it hard(er) for people to use
fluendo's codecs, nor am I saying that we should make it hard(er) for people to
use nvidia's drivers. I'm merely saying that we should not be pointing the user
to fluendo's codecs when playing for example wmv, just like we are not pointing
the users to nvidia's drivers when they try to use opengl on an nvidia card.
Regards,
Hans
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