On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 11:38 PM, Neil Coetzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear all, > > I have just had a rather embarrassing situation arise over the announcement > of proprietary codecs being for sale. We have just submitted an article > (which we do monthly) to a local newsletter published by the Computer > Society of Zimbabwe, and along with our article bragging about the Ubuntu > promise of always being free, they also published a link to this article: > > http://www.itwire.com/content/view/20762/1090/ > > which claims that Ubuntu has become commercial and is no longer free based > on this codec issue. I have so far been unable to find out for sure, whether > or not the free download of codecs is still available? I would assume so, > but can anyone confirm this before I start complaining to the people who > mass-mailed that link? I would appreciate it if anyone can shed any light on > what is actually happening and what the implications are. > > Urgent feedback would be appreciated so that I can jump on the Computer > Society of Zimbabwe and ask them to retract that publicly if necessary.
To put none to fine a point on it, Sam Varghese is a garbage journalist (He may be a perfectly wonderful person, but his jounrnalism is terrible). I would ignore what he says. Medibuntu is not going away (afaik) nor are the free codecs in multiverse. I honestly have no idea if we are planning to go the Fedora route and only sell codecs, but I seriously doubt it. Corey -- loco-contacts mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/loco-contacts
