> Red Hat is by far not my favorite distribution.

Which one(s) are your favorites, and why?

Mike

----- Original Message -----
From: "der.hans" <PLUGd@LuftHans.com>
To: <plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
Sent: Thursday, October 17, 2002 2:46 PM
Subject: Re: Xmms and RH8


> Am 17. Oct, 2002 schwätzte Craig White so:
>
> > There are 2 issues that RedHat has steadfastly refused to support.
> >
> > Proprietary licensing & lack of full source code.
>
> Red Hat has shipped many packages for which no source code was available.
> Maybe they feel the Free Software available has reached a point that they
no
> longer need to do this.
>
> > In the event of MP3, I believe that the source code is widely available
> > but companies now have to pay licensing fees to use it. In the case of
>
> When Red Hat was locking down 8.0 Thompson ( co-holders of the patent )
came
> out with a press release that was interpreted to mean that clients for
> reading mp3 files would have to pay a per client license. Even that
doesn't
> conflict with GPL and other Free Software licenses it's almost impossible
> for Red Hat to enforce, thereby making them liable for 'misuse' that would
> occur with their CDs.
>
> > Adobe Acrobat Reader, Nvidia drivers and others, the source code isn't
> > available and thus, none of this is included in the redhat
> > distributions. MP3 was part of earlier distributions but that was before
> > the copyright holder announced a licensing program.
>
> As I say Red Hat has made plenty of stuff available. I don't see a '3rd
> party' disk ( might only be in the 'pro' package ), but I have one for 6.2
> and 7.0. I believe I also have one for 7.2, but don't have the full set
with
> me. Yes, I've PAID for my distributions :).
>
> Back in the day they shipped a licensed version of a proprietary X server.
> That was a few moons ago, though.
>
> Red Hat is by far not my favorite distribution. I actively discourage it,
in
> fact. The company, however, appears to truly believe in giving back to the
> community. For that I respect them. They also have many very talented
people
> working for them. That's by design.
>
> > My guess is that most of the linux distro's will not include MP3 enabled
> > players in the future as well.
>
> Hopefully :).
>
> The only thing holding ogg back is lack of hardware ogg players. I believe
> those are in the works.
>
> ciao,
>
> der.hans
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