To refresh people's memories too, Windows XP does NOT ship with an mp3 encoder even. IIRC, this was because of 'license issues', although I believe it had more to do with Microsoft wanting to push wma, since they could easily buy a license for Windows (They have about 40 billion is cash or near equivalents). But license issues were mentioned. You can not encode mp3 using Windows media player, you need a third part app. Redhat takes this slightly further and does not ship with an mp3 decoder. Fhg should also realize that their format is useless without users, although I do not see mp3 going the way of the dodo too soon, but I have already seen many people start to encode with wma because it is the default and is the only thing you can encode to using Windows Media Player. -----Original Message----- From: shrike-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:shrike-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Emmanuel Seyman Sent: Saturday, September 27, 2003 2:59 AM To: shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: RedHat, Fedora, and the Future of Life as We Know it On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 07:58:02PM -0400, Buck wrote: > > Refresh my memory, what is Maynard's point? That you cannont bundle mp3 support with RHEL, even though you pay for it. This contradicts the GPL redistribution clause. If you want mp3 support, buy it from a third party at the same time you buy RHEL from Red Hat. Emmanuel -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
