That's not the point here. Besides, you got a spare $50,000 for Mandrake?? As it is they are AFAIK laying off developers and (perhaps) rushing releases a bit just to stay afloat. I am not ripping ML, just trying to be honest. I do NOT want to see ML go under, THAT would be a sad day. So if it comes down to a PLF package instead of ML paying for MP3's, I'll take it.
Regards, Jason Greenwood PS, how many things that require licenses should ML pay for in a FREELY downloadable distro??? None IMHO. The whole point of ML is to be 100% OSS, AFAIK. Bryan Whitehead wrote: > Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >> >> >>> Soooooooo, is XMMS going to play MP3's or not in 9.0??? >> >> >> >> dunno yet. we're studying the issue with lawyers, and contacting >> thomson & rh to get more info on the subject. >> > > Why doesn't Mandrake, RedHat, and others simply pay $50,000 on behalf of > the XMMS team. Then they will have an unlimited license for decoding > .mp3's. Mandrake/Redhat/others simply distribute XMMS.... > > Or am I missing something? >
