On Wednesday 06 April 2005 15:09, Ken Schneider wrote:
<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.
First of all, which version of windows can play DVDs out of the box? None of the ones I've tried could. I had to get third party software to do it. Secondly, the only thing removed from 9.3 is mp3 support, and there will be a solution for that before it hits the stores