everyday multimedia not supported in Ubuntu (Re: 3 days from the release, 3 machines, a few issues.

[Matt Galvin]

Maybe the people to complain to are the providers of the media
content. Tell the companeis that provide only realplayer/mp3/wma/mpeg
that they should provide oss alternitive media content/streams or
you/we will not utilize their products or services. Its not the
developers fault that the providers only provide closed source
streams/content. I am only letting it be know that something wasn't
working for me, something which i don't expect to "just work" anyway
since it's not oss content and not only an Ubuntu issue.

I would like the stuff to work, but its and up hill legal battle for
the whole oss world.

Just my 2 cents.

Matt

On Apr 6, 2005 2:59 PM, Kenton Brede <kbrede at nixnotes.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 08:05:47PM +0200, Philippe Landau (lists at mailry.net) wrote:
> > >Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > >I think that's a bit extreme, don't you?  Most every other Linux
> > >distribution on the planet is in an identical situation, and this is not
> > >cause for placing a disclaimer on the front page of the website.  That just
> > >doesn't seem reasonable.
> 
> > many small distributions are proud to offer working multimedia,
> > including proprietary codecs out of the box.
> > the most popular distro for simple users
> > has a parallel infrastructure for them,
> > and i never saw them say "we don't support this"
> > on the users mailinglist.
> > additionally, ubuntu prides itself in being different,
> > so why not be honest right from the front page ?
> 
> But those small distributions must be lacking something or you wouldn't
> be here.  Do they display what they lack on the front page of their website?
> 
> On the front page of the Ubuntu website you will find -
> "Ubuntu is entirely *committed to the principles of free and open source
> software development;* we encourage people to use free and open source
> software, improve it and pass it on."
> 
> >From reading the opening page of the Ubuntu website I really wouldn't
> expect much support for proprietary formats, given they are "committed
> to the principles of free and open source software,"  and that is their
> right.
> 
> You are obviously disappointed and probably a person trying to find the
> perfect free OS, for you, which includes out of the box multimedia
> support.  I've been using open source for a while and I can tell you
> I've never found the perfect distro or perfect window manager, for me.
> But I'm happy to use what is provided to me by the many thousands of
> developers out there and I don't expect them to create the perfect
> distro or window manager, for me.  Reality is, if you don't like the way
> something works in OSS, either learn out to tweak the config, or learn to
> program.  Demanding and complaining rarely works.
> 
> The Debian crew has done a wonderful job over the years and the Ubuntu
> team is doing a great job.  And they didn't charge you or I a dime.
> Kent
> 
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