On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 03:36:27PM -0500, Igor Izyumin wrote: > I'd verify this with a lawyer first, though. How was the situation different > 3 months ago? Also, MP3 is such an essential app that Mandrake will > certainly lose users if they don't include it in the package. Hardly anyone > end-users use or know how to use ogg, and this situation won't change, given > that no hardware players/encoders support ogg, and relatively few software > ones do. Not supporting mp3 means that newbies won't use Linux.
Yeah especially since RedHat hasn't taken this action yet. Plus the linked website off the RedHat site is less than clear. It only says "MacOS and Windows object libraries" need licensing. Now were they just not mentioning Linux because they don't care about us. Or because they just didn't put it on there. I don't know. I'd let RedHat figures this out and see what they do... -- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ben.reser.org If your love has no hope of being welcomed do not voice it; for if it be silent it can endure, a guarded flame, within you. - The Wisdom of the Sands
