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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How is that 'vastly different'? Red Hat will be licencing Microsoft source code and create CODECs for Microsoft audio/video formats using gstreamer framework.
How is Red Hat purchasing the rights to Microsoft CODEC's any different to RealPlayer and their proprietary CODECs? how is Red Hat signing an agreement as to allow Flash plugin to ship with the desktop out of the box any different than the arrangement with Microsoft?
You've failed to actually point out why - the way I see it, it has everything to do with a blind hatred of Microsoft and a deliberate ignorance to the issue at hand - you need compatibility with Microsoft to make it on the desktop. Apple and Sun have faced that reality and now its time for Linux vendors to do the same.