Fedora's way forward

[Joe Desbonnet]

Have Redhat lawyers approached Fraunhofer about this? I can't see any
financial down side for them -- it would be another licence sale.

On 3/28/06, Eric S. Raymond <esr at thyrsus.com> wrote:
> Andy Burns <fedora at adslpipe.co.uk>:
> > Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> >
> > >The page says $50K one time flat fee for a decoder.
> >
> > And an £15K minimum annual royalty?
>
> I don't see that.
>
> >                      Presumably they won't allow  source
> > distribution, Fedora/RedHat might just as well point people to Fluendo's
> > paid up binary only MP3 plugin https://shop.fluendo.com/
>
> No, there's a crucial distinction.  Consumers think they should get this
> capability bundled with their OS, not have to pay extra after the sale.
> --
>                 <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>
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