> This is exactley why Linux is _not_ main stream and probably never will be. 
> While I understand your altruistic thinking, in reality, people don't care, 
> they just want it to work. I want an efficient desktop that I can manipulate 
> to do what I want it to do. But it irks me when the distro makers tell me I 
> can do whatever I want, but I can't listen to mp3s. That is just rediculous.
> 
> I want my desktop to react the way I want. I want to modify my programs to 
> work the way I want, and I want to listen to my mp3's. I enjoy all my 
> benefits of open source, but sometimes the ideology of GPL followers gets in 
> the way of me actually doing anything productive.
> 
> So it is wrong to use a proprietary peice of software? Or support a company 
> that makes an awesome application, because they won't give it away?
> It makes no sense to me. 

Don't blame the "distro makers". Blame those who used MP3 format. (For at 
least a few years we have had better choices.)

Some links:

http://www.chillingeffects.org/patent/notice.cgi?NoticeID=464

http://www.mp3licensing.com/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MP3#Licensing_and_patent_issues  

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ForbiddenItems#head-69c9770fc2ef79ea9a691d03aa2f475eed113bfa

http://linuxmint.com/content/view/200/51/
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