Interesting article over at CNET:
http://news.com.com/2100-1001-959434.html
Bero left Red Hat over their modifications to KDE. The move that
particularly irks me is not that RH dropped MP3 players due to
patent/license concerns, but that they modified source code to
disable MP3 support:
"Red Hat decided to modify the audio players so they can't play
MP3 files to avoid the risk of legal challenges stemming from
differences between the terms of MP3-related patent licenses and
the General Public License (GPL) that Red Hat favors, Troan said.
The GPL requires that anyone be allowed to redistribute software
covered by it; patent licensees won't necessarily grant such rights."
On the up side, the O(1) scheduler is "standard" and it ships with
GCC 3.2.
Kurt
--
Happiness, n.:
An agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of
another.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
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