Nooooooooooo!

Post by **Sparkfist** » Mon Mar 14, 2005 10:06 pm

This says it all.

Post by **gannon** » Mon Mar 14, 2005 10:10 pm

tis a very sad day indeed

goodie · Post by **goodie** » Mon Mar 14, 2005 10:16 pm

Not good at all.

I sure hope such a thing never occurs in America.

sam · Post by **sam** » Mon Mar 14, 2005 10:20 pm

So, what does this mean for me?

goodie · Post by **goodie** » Mon Mar 14, 2005 10:23 pm

ATM, nothing. Unless you live in Europe.

Post by **gannon** » Mon Mar 14, 2005 10:24 pm

goodie wrote: I sure hope such a thing never occurs in America.

IIRC, it already has. I know that FC2 didn't come with mp3 support because of legal issues, and redhat is a USA based company IIRC.

goodie · Post by **goodie** » Mon Mar 14, 2005 10:27 pm

Yeah, everything just keeps getting worse...

Post by **Sparkfist** » Mon Mar 14, 2005 10:33 pm

Its funny Fedora doesnt have the mp3 or Mpeg-2 codecs installed but they give you the url for the patches to install them. Very ironic.

SuSE (which I have now) does have the mp3 codecs installed but as I was looking to download Mplayer to replace Kaffine and play DVDs. I got that page, however if you want I did go though linux.org and used the download url they had listed.

And as for this happening in the U.S. it has generally been safer for all open source stuff in Europe.

Unidentified Assilant · Tue Mar 15, 2005 12:31 pm

This is very sad for me... MPlayer is very cool

Post by **SpongeBuell** » Tue Mar 15, 2005 12:56 pm

Sparkfist wrote:Its funny Fedora doesnt have the mp3 or Mpeg-2 codecs installed but they give you the url for the patches to install them. Very ironic.

SuSE (which I have now) does have the mp3 codecs installed but as I was looking to download Mplayer to replace Kaffine and play DVDs. I got that page, however if you want I did go though linux.org and used the download url they had listed.

And as for this happening in the U.S. it has generally been safer for all open source stuff in Europe.

I can send you the RPMs you need for DVDs in SuSE, if you want. It'll work with MPlayer, Kaffeine, and pretty much anything that has a DVD option

JackFrost22 · Post by **JackFrost22** » Tue Mar 15, 2005 2:13 pm

I use XINE but I also use red hat so i cant play dvds

Nightmare · Post by **Nightmare** » Tue Mar 15, 2005 9:51 pm

Software Patents?!

If it happend, what would this mean

Post by **Sparkfist** » Wed Mar 16, 2005 4:12 am

@Spongebuell, It should be ok like I said I used the download URL and got to the SuSE rpm (just need to install it).

@Nightmare, Software patients will cause more damage to anyone making software in general. In Europe they want to have a patient for scroll bars, loading bars and stuff like that very general things that essentally no one person has developed or has a claim to.