OT - Which Linux?

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Wed Aug 26 10:59:28 PDT 2009


Thu, 20 Aug 2009 16:11:14 -0400, Nick Sabalausky thusly wrote:

> "Lutger" <lutger.blijdestijn at gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:h6j06p$24vr$1 at digitalmars.com...
>>
>> - how the distro deals with patented and closed source software. (mp3,
>> dvd,
>> flash, video drivers, etc)
> 
> That's a good point. Ubuntu doesn't have mp3, dvd, and (I think) flash
> out-of-the-box, and I found them to be a royal pain in the ass to get
> working. I've heared of "SuperOS" that is apperently just Ubuntu
> pre-packaged with all that stuff and some other things people have found
> to be surprisingly missing from a default Ubuntu. I haven't actually
> tried it though.

You should know that watching DVDs [1] in america (and today in many 
other countries, too) is a copyright crime (via css) unless you pay the 
license fees (included in the price of a legal discrete dvd player). 
Using a MP3 decoder isn't a crime on in private use, but the distributor 
most likely didn't pay the patent fees and is distributing it illegally.

[1] without a license, copying DVDs in private use is legal, but watching 
them isn't



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