Shawn Walker wrote: > James Cornell wrote: >> Only hardcore engineers are using Solaris, all of the front-ends use >> Windows and all of the hr and pr people use Mac laptops. Part of the > > Sorry, but that also isn't true. There are many non-engineering folks > that are running Solaris or using SunRays too. > > As for your patent arguments, you generally can't have something that > is freely redistributable that was written by a third party and is > patented by yet another third party all at the same time -- at least > not with media codecs. > > In general, I don't think you're going to win arguments commenting on > something that you don't have any way to measure. > But does it matter that I don't know how to explain my frustration? No it doesn't because at the end of the day we all have to out and build "ugly/bad" from SPEC files for those things Fluendo hasn't came to provide us yet. I'm not against paying the royalties so things work, but only mp3 and wma (beta, by request) is available legally. It is a true roadblock, since the intention of Indiana is at mobile users, developers, sysadmins and a small subset of office employees. So far aside from the patented format issues, they've done quite well, though they still need to remove Thunderbird because it's redundant and no better than Evolution, and most people agreed upon this, but Sun still has their finger in the pie, slowing things down. I don't care if I'm being obtuse, abrasive, ignorant, or downright rude, the intention is to get more people to make OpenSolaris a better platform, because so far the project itself has languished at times, mostly because of Sun's inability to communicate what they want the product to become. It's still too vague.
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