Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 21st Aug 2006 14:19 UTC, submitted by Jane Walker
The Linux desktop has made great strides in just the last few months, and experts at the LinuxWorld Conference & Exhibition in San Francisco see much more to come. Talk about technological issues is finally turning into successful deployments. John Cherry, the Desktop Linux Initiative manager for Open Source Developer Labs, spoke with SearchOpenSource.com about the progress of the Portland Project's beta release of its programming interfaces for the GNOME and KDE environments.
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2006-04-20
When you buy a hardware DVD player, you ARE paying for a DVD decoder - the hardware manufacturer has paid a licencing fee for the privelige of including a DVD decoder chip in the player, and the cost of that is passed on to the consumer through the price of the
DVD player. Buying a software DVD player for your PC is no different to buying a standalone DVD player - either way, the company that licenced the codec/technology for playing DVDs expects to get payed when someone uses that codec/technology.
If you don't like it, you can either not buy DVDs, only watch DVDs on your hardware DVD player, or risk legal action (which is fairly unlikely in reality, as it is impractical to know if someone is violating a licence of that sort without breaking the law by invading someones privacy).
Personally, I don't care if my PC can play DVDs or not (it can, as DVD playing software came with my DVD-RW), since I wouldn't want to watch DVDs on my computer (I might if it was an HTPC though).