This is not indended as a practical solution or idea (the thought
occured to me after a morning espresso fix):
Imagine a small computing device (USB powered memory stick form
factor), containing a processor and memory just powerful enough to
transcode proprietary, patent encumbered media formats into non-patent
encumbered format (note: often transcoding does not require the CPU
resources of a complete decode). The device contains proprietary (but
flashable) firmware with technology licenced from the various rights
holders. From a licencing standpoint it's just like a consumer DVD
player but without all the hardware -- the patent encumbered firmware
is confined to the smallest possible computing space. </fantasy> :-)
Joe.
On 3/29/06, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram(a)fedoraproject.org> wrote:
On Wed, 2006-03-29 at 00:27 -0500, Rowan Kerr wrote:
> Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> > OK. So the next question is, do *Red Hat's* goals no longer include
> > world desktop domination? Because if that's true, I need to find a distro
> > that hasn't ... er ... lost its idealism.
Now when does including mp3 decoders in Fedora equate to world desktop
domination by Red Hat or idealism? You have every reason to stutter
there being a open source evangelist - perceived or otherwise.
>
> This is what I have been concerned about for a while now. It looks like
> the next commercial version of Suse will have all kinds of media support
> through RealPlayer instead of the FOSS-only HelixPlayer. What will the
> next version of RHEL provide?
Thats a irrelevant discussion for Fedora-devel list really.
Rahul
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