On Tuesday 27 May 2003 18:53, Audioslave - 7M3 - Live wrote: > But if RH starts getting too "risk free". Then they'll miss out on all > the best things in life. I feel that they got to muddy their feet a bit. > If not by supporting these more chance taking programs. They'll need to > come out with a suitable alternative replacement program. Most want > multimedia and internet related programs. (at least in my encounters) > > I'm all for the ogg format for audio. I use it a lot and don't bother > trying to record in the mp3 format. But there are too many mp3 formatted > files that I would like to be able to listen to. Mostly files provided > from musical artists websites. Doesn't matter how popular the formats are, they are still legal issues surrounding them. Until these legal issues get resolved, then you won't see these applications in RH. It's really simple. Bitching about how popular the players are, or how "necessary" inclusion of them is to have Linux take over the world wont change the fact that there is a very real risk that RH can be sued for including such software, and thus ending the fun for everybody. I'd much rather have a legally safe distro that has a few less applications (that I can add on my own, thus eliminating the RH legal risk) than have a distro that may be sued at any given time. -- Jesse Keating RHCE MCSE http://geek.j2solutions.net Mondo DevTeam (www.mondorescue.org) Was I helpful? Let others know: http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=jkeating
