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

Arthur Pemberton pemboa at gmail.com
Sat Apr 28 20:28:51 UTC 2007


On 4/28/07, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.


I believe a lot of people hate RealPlayer in a cross-platform manner.


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