david wrote:
> If there is a man eater shark off the coast what do the local officials do?
They don't mail here, because that would be pointless. This worldwide list
of people developing and using OpenSolaris desktop software is the wrong place
to deal with the problem - it would be filling the inbox of people in far-off
countries who can't really help, and not getting the message to the people who
actually need to do something about it. If everyone mailed here about the
thousands of things threatening life and limb of different people around the
globe every day, we'd never get any discussion of the OpenSolaris desktop done.
The same is true of the topic you keep trying to raise here - no one here can
control how Microsoft spends its money, and if you want Fluendo to offer a codec
pack that's certified Microsoft-free, then you need to contact Fluendo, not us.
The system provided by Sun offers Fluendo as a simple choice for those who want
the codecs and are subject to the legal terms common to many, but not all,
countries. It does not exclusively require Fluendo - you are free to acquire
codecs from any source you consider acceptable, and compliant with your personal
sense of ethics, moral responsibility, and desire to be in compliance with the
laws of whatever jurisdictions you live, work, and travel in. Sun, as a global
corporation with billions of dollars in assets to risk in potential lawsuits,
has currently found offering Fluendo's products to be the best fit for the
business constraints and amount of legal risk Sun is willing to assume on this
matter at this time.
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-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
