Alan Coopersmith wrote: > Orvar Korvar wrote: > >> Solaris does not have codecs. SUN didnt pay the license costs, I believe. >> > > Remember, OpenSolaris is designed to be freely redistributable by anyone, > so including them in OpenSolaris requires paying for a world-wide, > unlimited copy, freely sublicensable license, or basically getting > permission to be the last license the patent holders ever can sell, > because no one else would need to buy after that. One can only imagine > how many billions of dollars they could ask in exchange for giving up > all future license sales. > > I wonder how much of the price of a copy of Windows 7 or OS X can be attributed to licensing fees (of codecs and such)
:-) --joe
