On Sat, 2002-10-05 at 16:58, Kevin Sonney wrote: > Then take it up with the lawyers. There are PATENT ISSUES with mp3 > decoder inclusion. On distros prior to 8.0, the owner of said > patent didn't have an issue, and there's no clear statement that a > commercially released GNU/Linux Distro won't be forced to pay $.75 per > decoder shipped.
Kevin, I must respectfully disagree with your above statement that something has changed just for 8.0. The slashdot story, notwithstanding, Thompson Multimedia (or whatever the patent owner's name is) has stated that *nothing whatsoever* has changed in their patent stance. Redhat's position just seems like a lot of fear mongering. But, you know what, I'm actually slightly glad they did it because hopefully it will drive people to try something else besides Redhat. :-) Tanner -- Tanner Lovelace | lovelace(at)wayfarer.org | http://wtl.wayfarer.org/ --*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*-- GPG Fingerprint = A66C 8660 924F 5F8C 71DA BDD0 CE09 4F8E DE76 39D4 GPG Key can be found at http://wtl.wayfarer.org/lovelace.gpg.asc --*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*-- http://www.petitiononline.com/SSSCA/petition.html --*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*-- Those who are willing to sacrifice essential liberties for a little order, will lose both and deserve neither. -- Benjamin Franklin History teaches that grave threats to liberty often come in times of urgency, when constitutional rights seem too extravagant to endure. -- Justice Thurgood Marshall, 1989 _______________________________________________ TriLUG mailing list http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ: http://www.trilug.org/~lovelace/faq/TriLUG-faq.html
