Red Hat's "Cowardice" against Software Patents

[Eric S. Raymond]

Michael J. Knox <michael at knox.net.nz>:
> Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> >Horst von Brand <vonbrand at inf.utfsm.cl>:
> >>Which SUSE? The paid one? No problem, they can pay for the codecs.
> >
> >Which, I'm suggesting, Red Hat could do also.  I don't undesstand why this
> >is a difficult concept.
> 
> So a RedHat Pro desktop solution?
> 
> I would buy it. Save the hassle of setting up the stuff that I need.

It was one of my early suggestions in this discussion.  Later I tried to
develop the idea of third-party yum repositories to carry "impure"
stuff.
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		<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>