Why is Fedora a multimedia disaster? - Here is why.

[Les Mikesell]

Rex Dieter wrote:
> Paul Osunero wrote:
>> You know, I've been wondering why Red Hat hasn't tried to pay royalty
>> for media codecs.  I'm pretty sure they have enough money for it...
> 
> They could, for rhel, but that goes against Fedora's principles/objectives.
> 
>> Or mabye there are legal issues with including patented technology with
>> Linux/GNU software?
> 
> One more: redistributability.  One of Fedora's objectives is to be fully
> redistributable (ie, so folks can spin their own Fedora-based distros).
>  Paid-for codecs are (generally) distributable only by the party that
> bought/paid-for them.
> 

Why doesn't anyone ever mention realplayer (http://www.real.com/linux) 
as a solution for people who want a legal player for their own use and 
aren't interested in source code or being a software distributer?  It 
isn't quite itunes, but at least they are trying to make something 
usable for linux.

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   Les Mikesell
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