[ale] OT: why does RH give you a warning about playing MP3 an d not other distros?

[Preston Boyington]

also, is it still a pain to get security updates or the like from RH.  at one time you had to sign in to a page that said you weren't from America and weren't using an internet connection in the U.S. (maybe a slight exaggeration on my part for effect).

think this was a DMCA issue...


Preston


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael D. Hirsch [mailto:mhirsch at nubridges.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2003 9:18 AM
> To: ale at ale.org
> Subject: Re: [ale] OT: why does RH give you a warning about 
> playing MP3
> an d not other distros?
> 
> 
> On Tuesday 24 June 2003 06:33 am, Geoffrey wrote:
> > miguel wrote:
> > > i know its a patent issue, but Mandrake/SuSe/Debian don't seem to
> > > care...
> >
> > Just a guess, but maybe because it's a US patent:
> 
> I thought Fraunhofer was a german company.  They invented it.  
> 
> I think RedHat is making a principled stand similar to their 
> requirement 
> that they will only ship Open Sourced programs.  That also 
> caused some 
> grief back in the olden days.  "Why did RH stop shipping xv 
> in version 
> 4.1?"
> 
> Michael
> 
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