Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (265 mails)

["Rajko M." <rmatov101@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Saturday 05 May 2007 10:23, Alberto Passalacqua wrote:
> Il giorno sab, 05/05/2007 alle 09.52 -0500, Rajko M. ha scritto:
> > It could be easier for new users with interest in multimedia to have
> > system up and running if retail version can include applications complied
> > with that support. The survey shows that most of participants obtain
> > openSUSE via download.
> >
> > 1) is it possible that if retail box would offer MM and maybe few other
> > goodies for extra price that it would be much more popular?
>
> I doubt it would be _much_more_popular_, but it would for sure improve
> the visibility of the boxed version.

It wouldn't make more difference on boxed versions, but it can be solution for 
OEM market. 

> > 2) Is it so expensive or legally impossible to have media applications
> > that work out of the box?
>
> It's very expensive. I don't remember the price of the licence, but
> there was a discussion on the IRC channel some time ago and I remember
> it was high.
>
> > 3) Is it possible that "Multimedia openSUSE" can fit a bill for the OEMs
> > and users that don't want to hunt versions with MM support enabled?
>
> It would certainly simplify users and distributors lives. I doubt DELL
> will ship multimedia enabled ubuntu, for example. They can't risk.

They won't. They will come up with some legally clean solution. 

-- 
Regards,
Rajko.
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