Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 23rd Oct 2006 20:50 UTC, submitted by Stuart Langridge
In the latest episode of LugRadio, Eric S. Raymond suggests that the Linux community need to start integrating more proprietary software in order to get market share. ESR points to proprietary multimedia codecs as an example of somewhere where Linux distributions should step away from free-software rhetoric in order to get more users, with the aim of bringing those users back to open source later on and to gain more influence with manufacturers and music/movie/media distributors to make Linux a properly supported platform.
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2005-11-14
Desktop linuxes should either include integration or a single-click "We don't support this" installer button that carries most of what EasyUbuntu/Automatix does.
I'll have to listen to his podcast, but I'm intrigued as to how he plans to sell the idea to North America where IP law is unfriendly to open source codec decoding.