Codeina: Intriguing idea, but...
Rahul Sundaram
sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Thu Nov 22 15:34:25 UTC 2007
Christopher A. Williams wrote:
> I understand the "legal compromise" intended with Codeina in F8.
>
> But of note, there's only 1 vendor you are directed to if you'd like to
> purchase a codec.
>
> Now - let's put arguments aside about if you should/shouldn't buy a
> codec for the moment. What provisions are being made to allow being able
> to buy codecs from multiple vendors - essentially facilitating
> competition and choice?
Codeina has infrastructure to allow as many vendors as we want.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/FeatureCodecBuddy
> Will we see more than one?
If vendors show up, then it could be considered. Currently I am not
aware of any alternatives.
Rahul
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