Glenn: >> How about this? >> >> http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/shouldbefree.html > > Possibly, but we'd certainly need to add some context for the user in > whatever dialog that we present them. Ideally, something like: > > The system is unable to play this 'media' due to the lack of a free and > redistributable codec (or something along those lines, I'm sure someone > could come up with better wording that conveys the same message). And > then we can point them at that link?
Agreed. > Definitely agreed with most of this, but I think we're going to get > 'deer in the headlights' looks if we start trying to educate users > philosophically (at least for the users who 'just want everything to > work' and don't care about the issues/politics/laws involved). > Basically I think we need to tell them that we can't play the media > they're trying to play gracefully and then tell them why we can't in the > simplest most informative words we can come up with. Also agreed. Brian
