On Wednesday 26 March 2003 14:47, William Hooper wrote: > Elton Woo said:
> > I must say that I'm a rather disappointed the the status quo WRT MP3 > > support in Red Hat 9 remains the same. Considering that both Mandrake > > and SUSe are releasing their next versions with MP3 support in them... > > (... unless I'm seriously mistaken about this!). > > This has been commented to death. Red Hat has explained their reasons: > http://www.redhat.com/advice/speaks_80mm.html > > I don't see the MP3 situation changing, hence don't expect MP3 support in > Red Hat. And for the record I would like to thank Red Hat for standing by > the concept of Open Source by not shipping/licensing things that violate > the spirit of Open Source. I would not dare to second-guess Red Hat's Legal Department. BUT... this is mighty strange: SUSE 8.1 http://www.suse.com/us/private/products/suse_linux/i386/multimedia.html Mandrake 9.1:Multimedia and Games http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/features.php3#7 Maybe it's some breach of logic, but from what one sees on the sites of these two distributions, would it not be correct, then, to surmise that *both* SUSe and Mandrake are violating the spirit of Open Source by including MP3 support in their distros? ... or is Red Hat a "special, favoured" target of Thompson? ... anyhow, it's no problem for me a "relatively seasoned" linux user, but I can well imagine what a turn off it would be for newly migrated Wintellians when they have to 'fudge about' to get mp3 support. Like it or not, mp3 *is* the prevalent format, and as much as one would like to see ogg become a popular standard, that IMVHO, will not happen in the very near future. But let's let the thread apropos mp3 die, here. ...maybe it's just that I have a soft spot for Red Hat, and I'd like to see them dominate the North American market (and NO, I don't own any RH shares!) <*chuckle*>. > You will see the release notes next week with everyone else (or the week > after if you aren't a RHN subscriber and no one posts them between now and > then). That sounds more logical. I was referring to someone else who posted the opinion that the Phoebe release notes would suffice. Elton. -- http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/stats/team/team_4504.html "You only live once, so let's make life EASIER for each other." LINUX Registered User #193975. AMD-K7 ATHLON CPU power on board. -- Phoebe-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/phoebe-list
