On 4/28/07, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Rex Dieter wrote:
> > Paul Osunero wrote:
> >> You know, I've been wondering why Red Hat hasn't tried to pay
royalty
> >> for media codecs. I'm pretty sure they have enough money for it...
> >
> > They could, for rhel, but that goes against Fedora's
> principles/objectives.
> >
> >> Or mabye there are legal issues with including patented technology
> with
> >> Linux/GNU software?
> >
> > One more: redistributability. One of Fedora's objectives is to be
> fully
> > redistributable (ie, so folks can spin their own Fedora-based distros).
> > Paid-for codecs are (generally) distributable only by the party that
> > bought/paid-for them.
> >
>
> Why doesn't anyone ever mention realplayer (
http://www.real.com/linux)
> as a solution for people who want a legal player for their own use and
> aren't interested in source code or being a software distributer? It
> isn't quite itunes, but at least they are trying to make something
> usable for linux.
I believe a lot of people hate RealPlayer in a cross-platform manner.
And the other choices that provide a free, legal, rpm-packaged player
that you can download for linux would be?
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Les Mikesell
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