Here are some of my ideas for Fedora 8 and Fedora 9

Thufir hawat.thufir at gmail.com
Sat Jul 7 06:18:38 UTC 2007


On Fri, 06 Jul 2007 19:31:02 +0300, Jonathan Dieter wrote:

> VLC doesn't have a license from whatever body licenses the MPEG2
> standard, therefore, even though they wrote the code themselves, the
> code is in violation of US patent law (though not US copyright law).
> 
> If you think this is ridiculous, you are right, but it doesn't change
> the fact that it's the current state of the law.


I'm going to have to read up on this, it's:

a)	fascinating
b)	terrifying
c)	confusing
d)	intricate
e)	about freedom and politics


However, it's easier to just open a beer and forget the whole thing, 
which, realistically, I'm more inclined to do...


-Thufir




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