Fedora Desktop future- RedHat moves

[max bianco]

On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 6:57 PM, Francis Earl <lunitik at gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes, despite it's legal ramifications... far better to risk your company
> to appease users. It's not like it's not available for Fedora, but Red
> Hat doesn't risk the future of the company on it.
>
> Google for 'Microsoft billion mp3'
>
> Mark is rich, but that's about 3 times his worth right there... he isn't
> licensing MP3 or any other codec for his distro, Microsoft just licensed
> it from the wrong people.
>
> Now wonder consider ffmpeg for instance has Apple codecs, mpg2/4 and
> Microsoft codecs just to name a few, and ask yourself whether it's smart
> to distribute this stuff.
>
> Only reason he gets away with it is because Ubuntu represents such a low
> market share that it's not worth it today.
>
I don't know that making it easy to access qualifies as distribution.
Ubuntu used to say on their home page that they only shipped free
software(OSS) , has this changed or am I mistaken?

Max