David Huerta wrote:

>>I was surprised that a distro like RH8 wouldn't play my music and videos
>>right away. I don't know how I could have missed installing anything
>>required, as I selected "everything" when I ran the install. I want to try
>>out different versions of Linux anyway, though, so I'm excited to check out
>>Mandrake 10. And I am not completely writing off Red Hat, as I was never
>>able to download the updates for the older version I have. Maybe if I could
>>update it fully I'd like it more.
> 
> 
> As I recall, Red Hat removed mp3 support at RH8 in order to appeal to the
> corporate workstation market, which didn't want employees listening to
> music or doing other "non-productive" activities.  Fedora Core 1 should
> have it support it right out of the box, however, if you feel the need to
> stick with Red Hat.

As has already been pointed out, RH removed support for non-royalty free codecs 
to keep them from being a target of lawsuits.  It was a move to keep them from 
having to pay a fee for every copy of their distro that was downloaded or sold 
as that would have gotten quite expensive since lots of people just download the 
isos from the Net.  This had nothing to do with appealing to the corporate 
workstation market as they still shipped with XMMS and other media players as 
part of the distro.
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