--- Renegade Penguin
http://www.mp3licensing.com/royalty/software.html
You could legally distribute the MP3 codecs with the player for $50,000 and up.
Alternatively, pay $15,000 per year up front and you can distribute at 75¢ per unit.
Similar scheme for DVD. This is how Linspire does it. Linspire isn't the most usable distro out there because of having this ability either. I wouldn't suggest it.
RP
houghi wrote:
On Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 12:28:57PM +0200, Kenneth Aar wrote:
I think we are on to a groundbreaking idea here. If users could download the dvdplayer and mp3 codecs for a fixed price I can't see how this could fail to become the most usable distro out there. Trying to play either dvds og mp3 would give you a message telling you that you can download from the suse site for x amount of ?. I belive Michael Robertson CEO of Linsipre said in LFX magazine no. 68 that they pay 3.5$ for each licence for the DVD MPEG playback. So if They are charging 9.95$ they are good profit.
I wonder if there is a minimum amount to be paid, otherwise I could just start selling these at say 7.50USD or 6EUR, make money and do something to the comunity. Wether or not I will prosecute people who copy the software is a complete other matter. I probably will point my finger, say you are a naught boy and be very, very upset.
I would just put the bin files in rpm, deb and tgz files and do it for all, not just SUSE. As it would be legal, Novell could point to my site.
Mmm. Where could I get info about this?
houghi
"I think we are on to a groundbreaking idea here. If users could download the dvdplayer and mp3 codecs for a fixed price I can't see how this could fail to become the most usable distro out there. Trying to play either dvds og mp3 would give you a message telling you that you can download from the suse site for x amount of ?." --> I would see it as quite enoying to say the least if I as a new Linux user finally start up my system ... all great open-source software ... & all eager I throw in a DVD & start up the player and I'm told that I'll have to pay in order to watch my DVD....so much for open-source. Couldn't there be a link in a Player which points to site which is hosted in a country where codecs can legally be downloaded ? Or as said above ... Novell pays money .. & the user has no hassle .. or is this against policy ? Sorry but I really don't get it why this is all so difficult when Novell is a huge global company. ___________________________________________________________ To help you stay safe and secure online, we've developed the all new Yahoo! Security Centre. http://uk.security.yahoo.com