post-install media formats wizard

[Santiago Roza]

On 2/22/06, Murray Cumming <murrayc at murrayc.com> wrote:


> Many of these formats will never be free
> of charge in most of the world.

for the third time: they are free of charge in the whole world, if you
install non-free(dom) software.

and they're even free as in freedom in most of the world.  luckily,
countries with software patents are still the exception.


> The current strategy of saying something like "You definitely should not
> click here to make this work." will hit lawyers eventually.

linux distros have been doing this for 10 years or so, but in the
wrong way (you have to ask a friend who points you to a wiki that
gives you a cryptic walkthrough).  i'm not suggesting anything legally
different; just a more efficient way.

btw, why would it hit lawyers?  it's perfectly legal for me in
argentina (or someone in france or china) to install a simple mp3
decoder.  there's nothing wrong with my operating system helping me to
do so.


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Santiago Roza
Departamento I+D - Thymbra
santiago.roza at thymbra.com