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RE[5]: I hope there are more packages for Fedora Core 5
by on Tue 20th Dec 2005 06:33
in reply to "RE[4]: I hope there are more packages for Fedora Core 5"
"Thats a load of bull. Suse 10 eval comes with full mp3 support plus many other goodies out of the box and its free so there ya go. Why would Novell engage in "illegal" practices? There is nothing illegal about it"
SUSE Eval is choke full of proprietary software. providing a proprietary implementation of mp3 is not illegal since RealPlayer has already bought a patent license. However a open source implementation under the GPL or LGPL license is illegal in regions where software patent laws exist without a patent grant which the patent holder is not willing to provide






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Thats a load of bull. Suse 10 eval comes with full mp3 support plus many other goodies out of the box and its free so there ya go. Why would Novell engage in "illegal" practices? There is nothing illegal about it. Its FOSS purists that curb Linux adoption. Thats why I switched to Suse and plan to stay with them as long as they keep bringing some sense into this.