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.
I'm not happy with that choice that makes things more difficult for
users either - and in the Nvidia case there is not even a legal issue
involved.
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