canonical to sell proprietary codecs!

[Ric Moore]

On Sun, 2008-09-21 at 01:38 -0400, Matthew Flaschen wrote:
> 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.

He didn't ask that. He merely asked "Which country" ...expecting a
singular answer. :) Ric

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