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

[Matthew S-H]

The thing is, the company that patented MP3 doesn't care about 
end-users.  They care about the money they make by licensing their 
codecs to the companies that make media players for macs and wintel 
boxes.

Just a question.  I know it is illegal to copy the code they distribute 
to decode MP3s.  But would it be legal if we could find an alternative 
decoder that isn't created by them?
And regardless, it will never be enough for us.  We are users of linux! 
  We converted because Microsoft OSs weren't enough, and because we 
believe we can do better.  So why stop at that?  True, we may never 
reach perfection, but the closer we get to it, the closer we get to 
toppling the behemoth known as Microsoft!


~Matt

On Apr 7, 2005, at 3:50 PM, ulrich steffens wrote:

> Am Donnerstag, den 07.04.2005, 14:16 -0400 schrieb Matthew S-H:
>>> is it never enough?
>> Is not our goal to seek perfection?
> if this is true, why uses the whole world the crappiest os to find? :D
>
>> I agree with you, though, this point is being beat to death.  But it
>> does need to be fixed.  It is a major pitfall of linux.  And think of
>> the nice PR if we could solve this and then back-port it to regular
>> Debian!
> it just made mad to hear the same complaining all over again while
> blaming the wrong people. i think emailing whoever patented mp3 (is it
> fraunhofer?) and complain about such things makes more sense to me.
>
>>
>> ~Matt
>
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