* Homer peremptorily fired off this memo:
> Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
>
>> Dell begins rolling out Ubuntu 8.04, adds media codecs
>
> So the infection begins:
>
> http://boycottnovell.com/2008/06/07/ubuntu-remix-codecs/
Mark Shuttleworth said,
June 9, 2008 at 3:54 am
Canonical has not licensed codes from Microsoft for work with
OEMs on the netbook remix. However, we almost certainly WILL
license codecs from any one of a number of sources - Real, Fluendo or
others - so that users of Ubuntu can legally play content in as many
formats as possible. Those codecs would be available alongside
existing free software implementations for users to choose, and some
OEMs may choose to bundle them on their devices.
There is nothing in that which is a conspiracy, or bad for free
software. We already have reasonable free codecs, like Ogg, but there
is content out there which people have every right to access, and if
they need to purchase codecs in order to do so legally in their
country then we need to facilitate that. Of course, we also want to
work to make sure that open codecs become more widely adopted, and we
want to work against laws which are dumb enough to create artificial
boundaries in an open, digital world. But we are not here to
encourage people to BREAK existing law, nor are we here to to prevent
people from exercising all of their options. We are stronger when we
make good arguments for freedom, not when we impose particular
behaviour.
And there's some mild back-n-forth.
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I'll pretend to trust you if you'll pretend to trust me.
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