Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4344 mails)

[Winston Graeme <winstongraeme@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

--- Renegade Penguin <renegadepenguin@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> 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.


		
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