On Tue, 2007-07-31 at 08:06 -0400, James Carlson wrote: > Kaiwai Gardiner writes: > > > I think it would be great if Sun gave these sorts of tasks a bit > more > > > priority and started to seriously consider the desktop market. > It's > > > not > > > high margin like selling mainframes, but I'd think Sun could make > a > > > serious > > > competitor to Microsoft and Apple if we wanted to. > > > > I'm surprised that Sun can't get access to those windows codecs > under > > the agreement which Sun and Microsoft signed. > > I'm not surprised. Access isn't the problem -- licensing is. > Licensing is a tricky business in the best of cases, because it's > entirely possible to have products that you can legally ship on one OS > but that you cannot sell the rights to or ship with some other OS. > > I think it's a great idea to ask those involved with MS (whoever they > are ;-}) to investigate some sort of porting effort like this, but > don't be surprised if the answer is a fairly opaque "no."
Well, they need to have something there to justify people paying for a subscription to Indiana once released - if they offered out of the box support for mp3, wmv, wma, asf (encoding and decoding) I'd be more than happy to shell out the money for a subscription - if they don't, why the heck would I want yet another operating system that offers me nothing different over Linux or FreeBSD? Matthew _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
