On Saturday, March 09, 2013 19:41:56 Basil Chupin wrote:
On 07/03/13 20:19, Jos Poortvliet wrote:
On Thursday 07 March 2013 17:45:50 Basil Chupin wrote:
On 07/03/13 15:24, Rajko wrote:
On Thu, 07 Mar 2013 14:23:37 +1100
Basil Chupin
wrote: But does your response also means that there is no concern if openSUSE is left with no multimedia support normally provided from packman?
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That is all we can do :)
Maybe you. Maybe me. But not an important distro such as openSUSE.
Well, I may have to stand to be corrected. Novell did get swallowed up - and openSUSE was cut loose.
What do Novell and openSUSE have to do with it? Legally, SUSE/Novell/any company in europe can not have anything to do with Packman. Only universities are allowed to deal with these patent-encumbered stuff.
Jos,
Have you ever bothered to look at the list of repositories available to be activated in the Software Management part dealing with Repositories in YaST2?
No? Then go ahead and look.
If you don't see packman as one of the repositories which can be activated then let me know which version of openSUSE you are using - if you are using openSUSE that is.
(If you were trying to state the above as a private message to me so as not to publicly admit what everyone knows to be the case (that packman is a repo shown for activation in openSUSE - but which "Legally, SUSE/Novell/any company in europe can not have anything to do with Packman." - then you shouldn't have sent your reply to this public list.
At least Ubuntu has a more "holier than thou" approach to this: they tell you that it is very naughty to have programs which will give you the ability to use multimedia applications BUT if, heavens forbid!, you do want to have multimedia then 'do this' to install those naughty-type programs which, naturally, we (Ubuntu) don't know anything about -- "Wink, wink, nudge, nudge, say no more!".)
I feel very little urge to reply constructively when spoken to in to such a tone, even if it wasn't uninformed. So, all you get is a 'have a nice day'. Cheers, Jos
BC