RedHat8 warning for MP3 fans!!

[Duane Attaway]

On Thu, 10 Oct 2002, DAVID KUCHARSKI wrote:

> from RedHat site:
> 
> Red Hat did not ship MP3 and DVD players in our 8.0
> release. If you thought we were just checking to see
> if you were paying attention, you're wrong. Due to
> conflicts between patent licensing and the licensing
> of our application source code, MP3 support has been
> removed from applications in Red Hat Linux.

Fortunately its not too hard to watch dvd's with gentoo.  Just typing
these two commands at the shell will install everything you need, compile,
and play a dvd movie from your local Blockbuster store:

emerge xine-dvdnav
xine -f -g -pq dvdnav://

If something violated a patent, it would download the source code from the 
author's website, or some place in the world where it isn't patented.  I 
believe its still legal for scientists to research patented devices to 
further technology...