Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 5th Aug 2007 11:30 UTC, submitted by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
Red Hat confirmed on Aug. 3 that it would be delaying the release of the newest member of its desktop Linux family, Red Hat Global Desktop, because the company is seeking to provide certain multimedia codecs. Sources close to Red Hat said obtaining some of these codecs was dependent on Red Hat coming to an agreement with Microsoft.
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Member since:2007-02-17
That's what they are doing. What is going to happen is something similar to what Ubuntu does with codec installs instead of directing you to the free but legally questionable plugins, Red Hat will suggest the fluendo licensed plugins. I think there was an interview somewhere stating as much. I think Ubuntu should think about doing the same. Yes free is nice, but I'd rather pay someone as long as I get a guarantee that they are going to work and not crap out on me.
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2006-01-18
that's what they ought to do