OT - Which Linux?

Nick Sabalausky a at a.a
Wed Sep 2 21:15:40 PDT 2009


"language_fan" <foo at bar.com.invalid> wrote in message 
news:h73t5v$22ar$1 at digitalmars.com...
> 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

There are certain laws that are immoral to willingly accept. Hollywood 
lawyers can kiss my ass.





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