Re: early review of RH 9 (Shrike)

[Elton Woo]

William Hooper wrote:

Upholding the spirit of open source is one thing.  Becoming a
profitable business is another.  I understand the philosophical
reasons behind their decision, I just hope it doesn't come at
the cost of eventually going out of business because they continue to
fail becoming profitable.
   

AMEN to that!!!

As great as OGG is, it is not viable at this time to the general
market.  Maybe that will change but right now it's going to hurt
Redhat because all of the other distros, that also support the spirit of
open source, are offering mp3 decoding in their products.
I'm on Redhat's side here, I just want them to succeed.

True.

Todd
   

Do you think that the same group that is complaining about not having MP3
support would be willing to go out an *BUY* this add-on pack?  In order to
make financial sense you have to be getting some revenue for the
expenditure.  No, they would complain about Red Hat trying to sell this
add on pack and download the plug-ins that are available now.
MP3 took off because it was free (as in beer).  That is it.  There have
been other, technically superior codecs developed, but most are not cross
platform or Free (as in beer or speech).  OGG is technically superior to
MP3, cross platform and Free (as in speech).
Technically superior doesn't always cut it. <*SIGH*> ... here we go again,
with the old Beta vs VHS argument. IBM's OS/2 was (?) technically superior
to Microsoft Windows 95, 98, Me ... it's now IBM eStation ... a *niche* 
product.

Face it there is no audio codec "market".  Everyone wants it free (as in
beer).  You can't please everyone, all the time.  Red Hat has decided for
The problem here is that like Real Audio, and Flash, mp3 / mpeg are not 
just
for entertainment purposes, but are now the defacto standards for 
business presentations
_not limited to_ mere 'presentation' but also for actually selling 
products / services
on the Internet.

... ergo, quo vadis linux?

Elton

(I hate to say this, but maybe when the dust settles, *the* linux 
company just
*might be* SUSe...)

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