Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4570 mails)

[Doug McGarrett <dmcgarrett@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 01:29 PM 11/25/2005 -0500, Bryan S. Tyson wrote:
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>On Friday 25 November 2005 10:14 am, Joachim Schrod wrote:
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>> there is no MP3 support on the retail DVD any more
>
>How does Novell/SuSE expect market share to increase with such a glaring 
>omission? I can understand leaving it out of OpenSUSE. 
>
>The average Windows-using retail customer is just going to walk away. This
is 
>the retail box we're talking about. They should pay whatever fee they think 
>is necessary to make it legal and raise the price to cover it. The same with 
>DVD support.
>
>I have been purchasing and using the retail boxed set since version 6. The 
>retail box lacking DVD support was bad enough. Now that they don't even 
>include mp3 support, and with the recent Gnome-centric plans for the future, 
>I am seriously considering dropping SuSE. Recently as I stood in CompUSA 
>holding the version 10 box in my hand, I sadly put it back on the shelf and 
>left.
>
>Bryan
>
I was recently at the IrfanView site for all the latest Win stuff, and I
seem to remember seeing the word Linux there somewhere.  Irfanview plays
just about everything; I don't know about encripted DVD's.

--doug


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