[fab] Pimping Fluendo for MP3 support

seth vidal skvidal at linux.duke.edu
Wed May 17 03:07:56 UTC 2006


On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 22:38 -0400, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 18:17 -0400, Greg DeKoenigsberg wrote:
> > Simple, legal, solves a lot of people's problems.  At the cost of a bit of 
> > moral high ground, but if we can educate while solving the user's problem, 
> > maybe that's not a bad tradeoff after all.  Somnething to be said for a 
> > good bully pulpit.
> 
> And if we give in here, where does it end?  Why not ship freely
> redistributable binary apps if they "solve user problems"?  And then,
> maybe next is binary X drivers.  
> 
> Our ideals and morals are really the thing that sets us apart.  Once
> free always free doesn't just mean that you don't have to pay.
> 

I think it is telling that debian recently sold out for java.

It seems like fedora is the only truly free distribution left.

I would like it to remain that way.

-sv





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