lør, 21 01 2006 kl. 17:19 +0100, skrev Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski: > Thankfully not everyone lives in the US so some of us don't have to put > up with stupid US patent system and law. I think that's exactly why > such software is being written in Europe, and not in the US. Don't get me wrong I hate software patents as much as the next guy, and luckily I live in Denmark where such evil laws don't currently apply (but I'll eat my chair if they don't try to sneak it back on the schedule soon though). I care mainly about the legal safety of Fedora as a project and for those users unfortunate enough to have to obey these laws. There's a vast difference between me breaking the law and Fedora breaking the law - I would rather see Fedora not get bogged down with legal threats, whereas I'm a pennyless unemployed person, they can sue me all they like for all I care. MPlayer, I'm sure is a fine project - I haven't used it for quite sometime since Totem and GStreamer seem much easier to work with, I still thing GStreamer as a framework is more the right way to handle the multimedia side of things than what Mplayer is doing. I am by far the only person who considers MPlayer upstream hostile, that is e.g. the reason stated by Ubuntu on their wiki for selecting a xine or gstreamer based default for the coming version of their distro. Or try asking the wonderful Telsa about them, I seem to recall some colourful quotes on their bughandling from her. - David -- Obligatory shameless blog plug - The GNOME commentary located at www.lovesunix.net/blog -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list