Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on February 25, 2007 02:21 PM
For Fedora, supporting MP3s costs nothing (Thomson does not require a royalty for free software). For Red Hat, supporting MP3s is a one off royalty of between $50,000 and $60,000 (ie a few cents on the cost of each install (ie essentially nothing)).
Yet, Red Hat, Fedora, and friends, refuse to satisfy their customers wishes and support MP3.
MP3 is closed and patented source technology. Those listed distributions have to adhere to US patent laws. Doing a simple search to enable support of proprietary codecs does not take a hour. Red Hat prefers to spend money to acquire and release closed sources applications under GPL license which is much better than paying to trivial thing like MP3. End of story.
Red Hat and Fedora, refuse to support the Windows filesystem NTFS, even though a good read-write NTFS-solution now exists. In fact, Red Hat and Fedora, refuse to even support the read only NTFS support that has been available for nearly a decade.
For the good security reason, the kernel-module-ntfs method can break the whole kernel.
the Linux-NTFS/FUSE project (<a href="http://www.linux-ntfs.org/" title="linux-ntfs.org">http://www.linux-ntfs.org/</a linux-ntfs.org>) has always worked to stop NTFS from working well on Linux. Their latest effort in this direction being their refusal to incorporate Szakacsits' fork, which allows writing to NTFS partitions (as it works too well, and too easily). They say they want it. They say NTFS-3g works extremely well. But, they are in no hurry. It has been 7 or 8 months, now. NTFS-3g will only be incorporated when it becomes too obvious that they are really a group, that has been devoted to making sure Linux and NTFS do not work well together.
Trying to spread lies? fuse/ntfs-3g works perfectly under Fedora. BTW, ntfs-3g has reached version 1.0
The problem is people like you who make a Linux distribution look bad. Talk about opportunist.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on February 25, 2007 02:21 PMFor Fedora, supporting MP3s costs nothing (Thomson does not require a royalty for free software).
For Red Hat, supporting MP3s is a one off royalty of between $50,000 and $60,000 (ie a few cents on the cost of each install (ie essentially nothing)).
Yet, Red Hat, Fedora, and friends, refuse to satisfy their customers wishes and support MP3.
MP3 is closed and patented source technology. Those listed distributions have to adhere to US patent laws. Doing a simple search to enable support of proprietary codecs does not take a hour. Red Hat prefers to spend money to acquire and release closed sources applications under GPL license which is much better than paying to trivial thing like MP3. End of story.
Red Hat and Fedora, refuse to support the Windows filesystem NTFS, even though a good read-write NTFS-solution now exists.
In fact, Red Hat and Fedora, refuse to even support the read only NTFS support that has been available for nearly a decade.
For the good security reason, the kernel-module-ntfs method can break the whole kernel.
the Linux-NTFS/FUSE project (<a href="http://www.linux-ntfs.org/" title="linux-ntfs.org">http://www.linux-ntfs.org/</a linux-ntfs.org>) has always worked to stop NTFS from working well on Linux. Their latest effort in this direction being their refusal to incorporate Szakacsits' fork, which allows writing to NTFS partitions (as it works too well, and too easily). They say they want it. They say NTFS-3g works extremely well. But, they are in no hurry. It has been 7 or 8 months, now. NTFS-3g will only be incorporated when it becomes too obvious that they are really a group, that has been devoted to making sure Linux and NTFS do not work well together.
Trying to spread lies? fuse/ntfs-3g works perfectly under Fedora. BTW, ntfs-3g has reached version 1.0
The problem is people like you who make a Linux distribution look bad. Talk about opportunist.
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