:) ... I, like everybody else, would like to see a working
DVD playback solution shipping as part of SuSE, but I imagine the licensing cost to the DVD consortium would add too much to the cost of the package.
Q: Could a software distributor (e.g. SuSE) simply get a volume license from the DVD people to distribute DVD playback software, at a per-unit price, then add that price in to the price of the distribution, and legally ship e.g. Xine/MPlayer/VLC or whatever with DVD playback enabled? Hmmm. And then we would hear screams from the peanut gallery complaining about
On Wednesday 06 April 2005 9:33 am, William Gallafent wrote: <snip> the price rise, and how linux is free how dare they charge for it.. <sigh> -- j "Any Genuine contest between liberty and equality is a contest that liberty must lose." R. Dworkin in Sovereign Virtue:The theory and Practice of Equality