Well said Alan, bookmarked as "the final word" for when the next person brings up this Fluendo codec thing :-)
On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 12:32 AM, Alan Coopersmith <Alan.Coopersmith at sun.com > wrote: > 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. > > -- > -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com > Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering > > _______________________________________________ > desktop-discuss mailing list > desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/desktop-discuss/attachments/20090720/eab6a8b2/attachment.html>
