On Friday 04 October 2002 19:10, Nadav Har'El wrote: > On Fri, Oct 04, 2002, voguemaster wrote about "Re: xmms rh8": > > Honestly I don't quite get it. > > How can they break such a behaviour or supported feature of the system ?? > > > > RH at previous versions could play mp3 easily, now you can't use XMMS > > ?????????? This makes me think twice about this release.. > > Yes, this was a really "chicken" move from Redhat.
I forwarded an Email from the guys in germany that they don't really care about XMMS or any open source MP3 players (not encoders - they have some fight with the LAME project guys), but unfortunately (and lately typical behavior of Red Hat personnel) they didn't care so much and they gave me the reason that the GPL disallowes you to spread a GPL program which implements some patents.. go figure (of course the fact that they do bundle programs like aktion or Xine which got TONS of patents on it [feel free to search for MPEG-2 patents] didn't really bother them so much.. > Another thing that I was disappointed to see Redhat not providing with > their distribution any more was the immortal game "xbill" :( deprecated.. Thanks Hetz (who's suffering right now from Bezeq's stupidity regardin ADSL).. ================================================================To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
