Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (349 mails)

[Will Stephenson <wstephenson@xxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 11 August 2010 08:05:47 Graham Lauder wrote:
> > > Additionally common proprietary codecs and drivers should be on the DVD
> > > or at first launch a script should launch asking the user if they want
> > > Video and Audio codecs installed so they can play their windows media
> > > files.

Try first launching Amarok in 11.3.

> > Note that unless there is an openSUSE.com incorporated on some island in
> > the Carribean or the Channel that takes over the entire infrastructure
> > and distribution some of these things will be hard to implement and/or
> > prohibitively expensive.
>
> Then one wonders how Ubuntu  UE does it on install and you don't even have
> to  ask.  

I wondered too and looked. - Canonical is based on the Isle of Man [1] (0% 
corporation tax) and I guess that it is firewalled from Shuttleworth's 
Squillions to delay it becoming an attractive target to codec license holders 
and patent trolls.  Plus, they don't have any big-name kernel developers who'd 
get irritated by their employer riding roughshod over their copyrights by 
distributing binary drivers.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canonical_Ltd.

As a native of Northumberland, England I've spent enough time at the end of a 
rural narrowband connection to feel your pain, but I appreciate that benefits 
have their costs - whether it's unspoilt country life->slow internet or taking 
Free software seriously->not having every feature on a plate.

Will

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