On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 10:55 AM, Giacomo Tufano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.
The problem is that even presenting such a choice could still be seen as facilitating illegal activities by some and that means the community has to be the one to provide anything related to this. Fedora does the same thing at last check. > 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). I don't consider buggy codecs that crash half the time "usable". Since that's my experience (in general) (on Ubuntu no less) with them. -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ "To err is human -- and to blame it on a computer is even more so." - Robert Orben _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
