On Saturday 05 May 2007 09:58, Randall R Schulz wrote:
On Saturday 05 May 2007 07:52, Rajko M. wrote:
It could be easier for new users with interest in multimedia ...
1) is it possible that if retail box would offer MM and maybe few other goodies for extra price that it would be much more popular?
Possible. But somehow, I doubt it would increase adoption much by itself.
Not alone, for sure.
2) Is it so expensive or legally impossible to have media applications that work out of the box?
3) Is it possible that "Multimedia openSUSE" can fit a bill for the OEMs and users that don't want to hunt versions with MM support enabled?
You could start up a business to do this, you know.
Good idea ;-) If you can backup finances.
The present situation is in a long run bad for both financial or adoption goals.
It's an old story. It's not impossible, but it would require the same kind of licensing agreements that Microsoft and Apple have with the pertinent licensing organization (Fraunhofer, e.g.). For whatever reason, Novell does not want to get involved in mingling proprietary software with their Open Source release.
Well open source would be download. Retail not necessarily. -- Regards, Rajko. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org