FC5 Totem and DVD

[Christian Nolte]

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Styma, Robert E (Robert) schrieb:
> As Linux makes inroads into the end user market, a simple way to make Linux do
> what a Windows box will do out of the box would be nice.  This would have to be
> done by people other than the GPL purists and it would probably be wise to do
> this outside the United States.

It would be nice to somehow inform the user about those issues when he
first tries to open media which is potentially illegal to access or
endangered with patent issues. A really nice suggestion in this
direction can be found in this article:

http://chabada.sk/better-desktop/
(see section "Easy multimedia codecs installation")

Another thing would be a tool such as Easy Ubuntu for fedora:

http://easyubuntu.freecontrib.org/

IMHO the non GPL-stuff must stay out of fedora because it restricts the
freedom of a certain user, but it must be in the users power to get the
problematic media up and running without much hassle.

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