Re: Fluendo walks the line between free and proprietary codecs
Posted by: Anonymous
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on August 15, 2008 04:58 AM
On the contrary, codec buddy educates the public about how legally entangled software has become. The user can then decide what the legally safe option is. The fact is that no matter how much people want freedom in their software, they still cannot violate the law willy-nilly. People need to learn that legal reform is needed regarding software and media in order for software freedom to be viable.
FOSS should not be promoting criminality. (In the United States, some of the FOSS software codec libraries are illegal.) If anything, Fluendo has made the right choice for users worldwide. They do not deserve to be villified for helping people to comply with their country's laws.
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Re: Fluendo walks the line between free and proprietary codecs
Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 67.150.9.14] on August 15, 2008 04:58 AMFOSS should not be promoting criminality. (In the United States, some of the FOSS software codec libraries are illegal.) If anything, Fluendo has made the right choice for users worldwide. They do not deserve to be villified for helping people to comply with their country's laws.
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