Il giorno 21/feb/08, alle ore 17:22, Brian Nitz ha scritto: > Rather than focusing on how difficult it is to run dodgey, unlicensed > video codecs out of the box as compared to Ubuntu, I'd like to make > sure > that our licensed Fluendo g-streamer plugins, LinDVD legal DVD playing > and free multimedia options (e.g. ogg-theora) are as easy to install > and > equivalent or superior to the legal options on Ubuntu.
You're right, but for me at home (and, probably, for many people in Europe) it is legal to download the "dodgey, unlicensed video codec" for Ubuntu. The repository warns me that this could not be legal in my country and this is all. I can legally use DVD, MPEG2 and whatever for Ubuntu (legally, in my country) and I cannot with Solaris. The key, IMHO, is to make sure it is an "user choice" to download and use "potentially illegal" codecs. This makes a *big* difference in desktop usability... and the end user outside of "MPAA/RIAA domain" (just joking, no pun intended) do not fully understand what you're saying (I do, but I work for an US Company). My 2 €cents, gt _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
