canonical to sell proprietary codecs!

[Matthew Flaschen]

Willy K. Hamra wrote:
> i just read in slashdot
> (http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/09/19/166230) that
> canonical is planning to sell proprietary codecs for ubuntu users since
> these are important for the user experience etc..
> what about w32codecs though? it's in medibuntu and not the universe
> repos, but aren't these enough?

w32codecs are illegal.  Canonical's codecs will be like Opera (which
they already distribute), legal but proprietary.  Pick your poison...

Matt Flaschen