On Sunday 16 October 2005 02:36 pm, Walt Frampus wrote:
On Sun, 2005-10-16 at 14:26 -0400, Bruce Marshall wrote:
On Sunday 16 October 2005 02:07 pm, Andy Choens wrote:
But, if my Dad were to download SUSE and then get told (as happened on this thread) to stop complaining, etc. about the lack to DVD capability, win32 codecs, etc. he would throw SUSE out the window and be back on Windows before you could blink.
Oh, so Windows gave him a free DVD player?
Not that I am aware of.......
If you will read what Andy actually said, you would know that he didn't say windows comes with a free DVD player. Most computers you buy with winows installed has the capability to play DVD's out of the box. It is time for the big linux companies to start pushing for multimedia rights under linux.
Walt
Yeh, I didn't bother to read further..... but........ His Dad paid the "Windows Tax" in order to get that DVD player.... and if you want Linux to be priced accordingly, then maybe they can provide a player too. Would be nice if there was an 'add-on' package for 10.0 that provided some of the commercial packages. And it would most likely be a money-maker for Novell.