On Saturday 05 May 2007 10:23, Alberto Passalacqua wrote:
Il giorno sab, 05/05/2007 alle 09.52 -0500, Rajko M. ha scritto:
It could be easier for new users with interest in multimedia to have system up and running if retail version can include applications complied with that support. The survey shows that most of participants obtain openSUSE via download.
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?
I doubt it would be _much_more_popular_, but it would for sure improve the visibility of the boxed version.
It wouldn't make more difference on boxed versions, but it can be solution for OEM market.
2) Is it so expensive or legally impossible to have media applications that work out of the box?
It's very expensive. I don't remember the price of the licence, but there was a discussion on the IRC channel some time ago and I remember it was high.
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?
It would certainly simplify users and distributors lives. I doubt DELL will ship multimedia enabled ubuntu, for example. They can't risk.
They won't. They will come up with some legally clean solution. -- Regards, Rajko. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org