On Wednesday 06 April 2005 14:09, Ken Schneider wrote:
On Wed, 2005-04-06 at 08:49 -0400, Bryan Tyson wrote:
On Wednesday 06 April 2005 07:29, Mark Crean wrote:
Well, quite a lot of people may well be a little reluctant to pay up for SuSe 9.3 if this early review is to be believed. It says that multimedia functionality has been crippled to the point that if you want to play mp3s and the like, except through realplayer, you will have to install not only recompiled apps like amarok but also recompile kde-multimedia and other deep-level stuff. Sounds a complete nightmare, not least because recompling fundamental things will make updating that much more complicated. Hope it's not true, or that packman comes to the rescue. Otherwise, this could make SuSE very hard for some of us. See
I find the multimedia situation described in this review very disappointing. What were they thinking?
Bryan
In not so certain terms it is referred to as CYA.
<rant> Do you remember when M$ wanted to put DRM in the PC hardware so that they (M$) could control what was installed/played/looked at? It appears that that idea has hit the circular file cabinet and now there is another way to fight linux, multimedia support. Take away multimedia support and how many people will go back to windows to get it. Those of us that live in the US need to write our reps in Washington but I fear it will do no good. M$ has done a good job of paying off (lobbying is the term they actually use here) our reps to their advantage. Take away multimedia and get them ( the users ) to go back to M$. Why is it that M$ can play ALL multimedia formats ( music and DVD ) but it is not allowed (legal) on linux, especially DVD playback? </rant>
Sorry for the rant.
No need to apologise, that seems to be exactly right to me. Please do petition your legislators, but as you say it will do no good at all because the big corporations will get what they want. Cheers Fergus
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