Dapper installation notes/Stuff that needs fixing

Lee Revell rlrevell at joe-job.com
Tue Feb 21 20:48:38 GMT 2006


On Wed, 2006-02-15 at 11:15 +0200, Aigars Mahinovs wrote:
> This solution is as easy as it gets. And the message should rather be:
> "Due to the cripled legal system of USA and Japan which allows
> software patents, we have to ship Ubuntu that is crippled in its media
> playing capabilities. If you do not live in these countries or have in
> other way acquired rights to play media protected by software patents,
> you can download media plugins from our site."
> With a single button - "Uncripple media capabilities" 

I realize it's fashionable to bash the US, but would this really help
users?  After all they will still consider it "crippled" if it does not
include the Win32 codecs - which would be illegal to ship under ANY
legal system.

Lee




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