Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Mon 15th Sep 2003 20:37 UTC
Original OSNews Interviews Today we feature a very interesting interview with Havoc Pennington. Havoc works for Red Hat, he is heading the desktop team, while he is well known also for his major contributions to GNOME, his GTK+ programming book, plus the freedesktop.org initiative which aims to standardize the X11 desktop environments. In the following interview we discuss about the changes inside Red Hat, Xouvert, freedesktop.org and Gnome's future, and how Linux, in general, is doing in the desktop market.
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RE:Nails and MP3's
by trashcan on Mon 15th Sep 2003 11:13 UTC

No, Redhat is protecting themselves, not you. There are legal issues with using the mp3 standard.
You can read more here:
http://www.mp3licensing.com/royalty/software.html

While other distributions have taken a more cavalier approach, Redhat is actually doing the right thing since they are not paying.