Freespire's Google ads: "What is Ubuntu Missing?"

Lee Revell rlrevell at joe-job.com
Sat Sep 23 19:44:36 BST 2006


On Sat, 2006-09-23 at 12:31 -0600, Conrad Knauer wrote:
> Now, AFAIK, the Fluendo decoder (gstreamer0.10-fluendo-mp3) in
> universe *does* allow us to legally play MP3s, but just not 'out of
> the box' and DVDs aren't a problem in countries without dopey software
> patents and such ;) so I detect a bit of false advertising there.
> 

It's not false to the hundreds of millions of people who do live in a
country with software patents, and for many users if it doesn't work out
of the box it might as well not work at all.

Lee




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