making Ubuntu easy

[Scott]

On 05/25/2006 04:03 AM, * Robert Spanjaard spake thusly:
> On Thu, 25 May 2006 02:24:08 -0700, Scott wrote:
> 
>> And then there is that ever popular software on Mac and Windows that
>> lets you legally play DVD video and audio.........
>>
>> I've always wondered how much that license costs and who collects the $$$..
> 
> There was a newsmessage a couple of days ago, announcing that the German
> Fraunhofer Gesellschaft (the inventor of mp3) cashed about 100 million
> dollars last year through licensing. There is no simple cost per license;
> the system is a bit more complicated than that.

I see. OK. I'll settle for knowing who the "Fraunhofer Gesellschaft" of
the DVD world is. :-)


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