Fedora's way forward

[Jesse Keating]

On Tue, 2006-03-28 at 11:32 -0500, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> The page says $50K one time flat fee for a decoder.  Is there any good
> reason Red Hat shouldn't simply buy that license for some outfit with
> a track record, like the lame developers?  MP3 problem solved,
> relatively cheaply (e.g., less than half the annual cost ofjust one
> additional full-time coder).

That makes it distributable by lame, but not REdistributable by Fedora
and any Fedora derivitives.  Redistributable is the key.

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