Re: early review of RH 9 (Shrike)

On Wednesday 26 March 2003 14:47, William Hooper wrote:
> Elton Woo said:

> > I must say that I'm a rather disappointed the the status quo WRT MP3
> > support in Red Hat 9 remains the same. Considering that both Mandrake
> > and SUSe are releasing their next versions with MP3 support in them...
> > (... unless I'm seriously mistaken about this!).
>
> This has been commented to death.  Red Hat has explained their reasons:
> http://www.redhat.com/advice/speaks_80mm.html
>
> I don't see the MP3 situation changing, hence don't expect MP3 support in
> Red Hat.  And for the record I would like to thank Red Hat for standing by
> the concept of Open Source by not shipping/licensing things that violate
> the spirit of Open Source.

I would not dare to second-guess Red Hat's Legal Department. BUT...
this is mighty strange: 
SUSE 8.1 
http://www.suse.com/us/private/products/suse_linux/i386/multimedia.html

Mandrake 9.1:Multimedia and Games
http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/features.php3#7

Maybe it's some breach of logic, but from what one sees on the sites
of these two distributions, would it not be correct, then, to surmise that
*both* SUSe and Mandrake are violating the spirit of Open Source by
including MP3 support in their distros? ... or is Red Hat a "special,
favoured" target of Thompson?

... anyhow, it's no problem for me a "relatively seasoned" linux
user, but I can well imagine what a turn off it would be for newly
migrated Wintellians when they have to 'fudge about' to get mp3 support.
Like it or not, mp3 *is* the prevalent format, and as much as one
would like to see ogg become a popular standard, that IMVHO, will
not happen in the very near future.

But let's let the thread apropos mp3 die, here. ...maybe it's just that
I have a soft spot for Red Hat, and I'd like to see them dominate
the North American market (and NO, I don't own any RH shares!)
<*chuckle*>.


> You will see the release notes next week with everyone else (or the week
> after if you aren't a RHN subscriber and no one posts them between now and
> then).
That sounds more logical. I was referring to someone else who posted the 
opinion that the Phoebe release notes would suffice. 

Elton.
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