On 2006-12-23 19:14, John wrote:
I'll tell you what this patent protection did for me.
First off, you should be aware that a great deal of protected stuff has not been in SuSELinux, for quite some time. Your Mplayer was uninstalled because of legal reasons, and Novell/SuSE cannot do much about that, if they want to protect their asses and yours from some rather expensive lawsuits. The codec patents involved in Mplayer for the most part do not belong to Microsoft. The various patented formats, such as mp3, are owned by someone else. Therefore, nothing in the Novell/MS agreement can allow those codecs to be put into the distribution.
I made the mistake of upgrading to openSUSE 10.2 and now I'm regretting it big time. Mplayer was uninstalled by the upgrade, and none of my
So put in a link to a Packman mirror, and put it back.
Is Linux desktop ready for prime time? I wish, but unfortunately, that's not the present situation.
Well, you go talk to the boys that own the mp3 patents and tell them they should just give Novell the rights to distribute the codecs, without fee. I am sure they will listen. -- The best way to accelerate a computer running Windows is at 9.81 m/s² -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org