Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3232 mails)

["M. Fioretti" <mfioretti@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Aug 20, 2006 11:12:11 AM -0400, suse@xxxxxx (suse@xxxxxx)
wrote:

> I will be straightforward and say that multimedia support from Linux
> distros has been abominable. So many of them won't even play mp3s
> out of the box, nevermind video codecs like xvid.

It's passed some time since when I last looked in detail into this,
but IIRC, at least for _some_ distributions, they "won't even play XYZ
out of the box" because they legally CANNOT integrate/redistribute the
necessary sw, isn't it?

> So I make this humble proposal: Make a nice big easy package that
> will install all the multimedia goodness, just don't include it on
> the CD.  Instead, have it downloaded.

And how would this be legally/ethically *different* from including it
in the CDs? If you can't one way (see above) you can't the other, the
media doesn't make difference.

Unless you meant that a THIRD, independent party should do it, but
that's not what it looks like from what you write. So, to who are you
proposing to host that "big easy package"?

Ciao,
	Marco

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