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

[Matthew Miller]

On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 09:23:00PM -0700, David Boles wrote:
> > Or mabye there are legal issues with including patented technology with
> > Linux/GNU software?
> >snip<
> How much would you be willing to pay for codecs and then give them away for
> free?

More to the point, what would you set your asking price if you were selling
something to someone who intended to give the product to everyone else for
free for all time, including the right to make modified and derivative
works? In other words, what's the asking price to completely buy out the
needed patents and bury them?

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