Restricted modules in Ubuntu

[Chris Puttick]

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> From: "Liam Proven" <lproven at gmail.com>
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> 2009/1/14 Brian Fahrlander <wheeldweller at gmail.com>:
>> Scott wrote:
>>> I 100% agree.  I'm Canadian and I have the freedom to download the
>>> restricted extras as I wish.  It would be best to have a (k)ubuntu with
>>> the restricted extras already installed and another version for the
>>> Americans and the few people that don't want it installed.
>>>
>>> I hate it when people complain that (k)Ubuntu, "does not even have MP3
>>> support.  What kind of OS is that?".  It is one of the more difficult
>>> things to defend.  I try to explain the free formats, but that does not
>>> seem to help.
>>>
>>    Well, let's not forget: it was THE GERMANS who imposed the
>> $0.25/player, $0.75/encoder fees on the file format that everyone had
>> already accepted.
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> Ogg, alas, will not play in either of my phones or my Creative Labs
> jukebox or in iTunes on my Mac or Windows laptop or indeed in many
> places. And no, my Creative Zen won't run Rockbox, I've looked.
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> Nice idea but little practical use.
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Ogg plays very nicely in all good(*) media software portable media
player devices (mine's a Meizu, available more or less anywhere). And
ones manufactured by sane companies. Why not include a decoder for a
codec with no licence fee? Particularly when a number of decoder chips
already can do it, they're just disabling it for some inexplicable
reason...

*Where the definition of good includes the ability to play open
standard codecs :)
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