canonical to sell proprietary codecs!

Matthew Flaschen matthew.flaschen at gatech.edu
Sun Sep 21 05:38:46 UTC 2008


alan c wrote:
> Matthew Flaschen wrote:
>> 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. 
> 
> Which country are you referring to?

Mine, of course.  If you want legal information valid for all countries,
you should expect to pay someone.

Matt Flaschen




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