On Wednesday 06 April 2005 12:24 pm, John B wrote: <snip>
Why was MP3 excluded from 9.3?
No clue, but I would guess it's for legal reasons.
Thanks, Anders. That's made me feel much better. Now I'm looking forward to my 9.3...mainly though for the hopes it'll see my audigy2 card, heh.
I would guess that one teansy problem they may have is the fact that the owner of the mp3 codec patent lives in Germany , is a German citizen ( I believe so anyway) And that his patent was issued either in Germany or the EU ( sorry I don't know much about patent law.Or worse I haven't any idea how it is handled in the EU, whether by country or for the whole area) it's on my list of stuff to read.. tho , not at the top of it <g>) I suspect that gentleman has made his position clear vis a vis the cost of the inclusion, and it is beyond what Suse thinks it's customers are willing to pay for it.. since you can go dl the lame files yourself .. ditto any other item you may need.. rather like now ... no? mp3's haven't worked out of the box since I can't remember when. But it's no biggie to get it working.. some will find it much easier than their adventures w/ the NVDIA drivers.. tho I've not had any problems w/ them in ages either.. So it's be like, 3 clicks instead of one or two.. what's that worth to you , huh? -- j "Any Genuine contest between liberty and equality is a contest that liberty must lose." R. Dworkin in Sovereign Virtue:The theory and Practice of Equality