Thu, 20 Aug 2009 16:11:14 -0400, Nick Sabalausky thusly wrote: > "Lutger" <lutger.blijdest...@gmail.com> wrote in message > news:h6j06p$24v...@digitalmars.com... >> >> - how the distro deals with patented and closed source software. (mp3, >> dvd, >> flash, video drivers, etc) > > That's a good point. Ubuntu doesn't have mp3, dvd, and (I think) flash > out-of-the-box, and I found them to be a royal pain in the ass to get > working. I've heared of "SuperOS" that is apperently just Ubuntu > pre-packaged with all that stuff and some other things people have found > to be surprisingly missing from a default Ubuntu. I haven't actually > tried it though.
You should know that watching DVDs [1] in america (and today in many other countries, too) is a copyright crime (via css) unless you pay the license fees (included in the price of a legal discrete dvd player). Using a MP3 decoder isn't a crime on in private use, but the distributor most likely didn't pay the patent fees and is distributing it illegally. [1] without a license, copying DVDs in private use is legal, but watching them isn't