Fedora - DELL ?

Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Fri Mar 16 16:21:43 UTC 2007


Alan Cox wrote:
>> Did you happen to not notice that virtually every Dell currently shipped 
>> has mp3 playback loaded - also WMA and most would have dvd too.  
> 
> Did you happen to notice that Dell and various other vendors were sued
> for shipping MP3 (the suit Microsoft then took up and just lost the first
> round of for $1.2 billion...
> 
> Feel free to do your own distro using MP3 if you've got $1.2 billion to
> spare.
> 
> Alan

That's a valid point, but in the US anyone can sue anyone else over just 
about anything and it's not over till the appeals are used up.  How can 
you be sure that someone won't claim ownership of some obscure parts of 
Linux and sue over that - again?

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   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com




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