Royalty free gstreamer plug-in

[Rahul Sundaram]

Hi

>>We could have done that with RealPlayer long before. We dont do that 
>>since we dont support proprietary formats. If you want a Free software 
>>platform be prepared to support and use a Free and superior format like 
>>Ogg. Thats my take on it.
>>    
>>
>
>I think that's a great and courageous statement to make.
>
Yes it is.

>  The reason
>we're giving away this plug-in, legally, is because we feel users and
>distributions should be given the choice to allow their users to migrate
>from closed to open formats.
>
>Thomas
>  
>
Red Hat happens to be doing similar things all the time. Evince or GCJ 
for recent examples. Again I do believe your solution makes sense for a 
whole lot of people regardless of my stand on it.

-- 
Rahul 

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