On Sat, Oct 05, 2002 at 11:00:58PM -0400, Tanner Lovelace spoke thusly: > I must respectfully disagree with your above statement that > something has changed just for 8.0. The slashdot story,
Admittedly, it didnt' change "just for 8.0" - it changed in time for 8.0. The patent didn't apply until 8.0, and wasn't enforcable until 8.0. > 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 Sure it did. They opened the door to charge .75/decoder shipped. They state in the press release that free projects won't be pursued, but nowhere does it say that in the actual license. I checked, just to be sure. > seems like a lot of fear mongering. But, you know what, Fear mongering, or actually practicing what they preach about fair and open markets, fair and open standards, fair use, and open source? > I'm actually slightly glad they did it because hopefully it > will drive people to try something else besides Redhat. :-) Which is cool. Hell, Linux is all about choice, and while I work for Red Hat, and prefer their product, I have no problem with anyone else making their own decisions. Buy and use Mandrake. Use Debian, but I expect their mp3 stance to change, too. There's always SuSE, and the UnitedLinux distros. Don't forget Gentoo, or Linux-From-Scrath, or Sorcerer GNU/Linux I hear *BSD is nice, too. Knock yourself out. Choose what's best for you. Thats' what it's all about, right? -- ---------------------------------- -- Kevin Sonney -- -- ICQ: 4855069 AIM: ksonney -- ---------------------------------- 320C 0336 3BC4 13EC 4AEC 6AF2 525F CED7 7BB6 12C9 While I do not profess to completely comprehend slack, I have been assured by members of the Church that I do have it. -- Paul Jones - http://www.ibiblio.org/pjones/
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