Dapper installation notes/Stuff that needs fixing

[Dane Mutters]

On Tuesday 21 February 2006 12:48 pm, Lee Revell wrote:
> 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

	I think that while the wording is a bit questionable, a nice easy to enable 
OGG, MP3, MPEG, etc. is in order.  Aren't there other libraries aside from 
w32codecs than will allow playing these types of files (ffmpeg, for example)?  
Also, in some countries, there aren't really copyright laws; I think there 
should be an option to install the w32codecs if the user lives in one of 
those countries.

	Just my two bits...

	--Dane