<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 TRANSITIONAL//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; CHARSET=UTF-8"> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="GtkHTML/3.6.1"> </HEAD> <BODY> Well Phillipe, if this is such an important issue for you, why don't you contribute your time & $ (or Francs) to the open source concept of Ubuntu and do that investigation for all jurisdictions where Ubuntu is hosted, or maybe targeted (you'd need to ask your lawyers what the scope should be <IMG SRC="cid:1111476920.8559.11.camel@localhost.localdomain" ALIGN="middle" ALT=":-)" BORDER="0">) <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <PRE> no business can operate without consulting lawyers, so why not clarify this aspect for Linux ? all distributions are currently struggling with this question, and many do much more to satisfy the needs of simple users. the minimum that could be done is to launch an equivalent of what "PLF" (Penguin Liberation Front) does for Mandrake. there currently are instructions on how to make things work on ubuntu, but they are not simplified to the point of general and *unified* adoption, with the effect that multimedia on ubuntu is inadequately tested and thus buggier then necessary. kind regards philippe -- >>>>installing very popular prorietary codecs and players >>>>is still more complicated then just downloading >>>>an additional script/installer. >>>>so the multimedia capabilities remain largely untested and buggy. >>> >>>Unfortunately, WMV streams cannot be played in Ubuntu without the addition >>>of third-party or otherwise unsupported software. We are aware of this >>>problem, but unfortunately there is little to be done about it. >>> >>>If you can justify your claim that multimedia capabilities in general are >>>not working well, please provide an example using only supported software. >> >>non-free movie playback is essential for simple users. >>examples are provided on this mailinglist on a regular basis. >>canonical just chooses to consistently answer with >>"not allowed to do it, >>not allowed to look into it." > > </PRE> </BLOCKQUOTE> <TABLE CELLSPACING="0" CELLPADDING="0" WIDTH="100%"> <TR> <TD> Kind Regards Russell ================== www.windsorcycles.com.au bikes.no-ip.info Linux user #369094 ================== </TD> </TR> </TABLE> </BODY> </HTML>