On Monday 14 November 2005 02:13 pm, Chad Phillips wrote:
Back around 2002, the owners of the MP3 patent started charging a $.75 fee for all MP3 decoders. Most free distro's pulled MP3 support rather than pay the fee. Probably a paid for box set of Suse etc.. would include MP3 support.
Interesting discussion also here:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2000/06/msg01213.html