post-install media formats wizard

[Murray Cumming]

On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 11:22 -0300, Santiago Roza wrote:
> On 2/22/06, Murray Cumming <murrayc at murrayc.com> wrote:
> 
> > Instead of baffling people with licensing, patenting, copyright, and
> > other incomprehensible blather, distros need to make it easy for people
> > to _pay_ for the things that they must pay for.
> 
> 
> that doesn't make any sense.  first of all, they *don't* have to pay
> for that unless they live in the usa.

No mainstream distro is going to give you something that's illegal in
the U.S. just because you say that you are not in the U.S. It's a nasty
world and we have to live in it.

> and as a matter of fact, even if they live there they don't have to
> "pay"; they just have to install non-free software like realplayer.

OK, so you can put that on the website too.

But Realplayer should sell codecs for Totem, so people don't need to use
more than one player.

> we could improve my proposed dialog by making it install realplayer
> (or some other non-free package) on "cancel".
> 
> but anyway, when was my text "baffling"?  i only said patents ONCE...

And there the baffling begins. People don't read stuff, let alone try to
understand it.

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Murray Cumming
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