On 2008-07-21, The Ghost In The Machine <ewill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Moshe Goldfarb.
><brick_n_straw@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote
> on Mon, 21 Jul 2008 15:24:12 -0400
><1u5tthl10wn5c$.10keqd1xe5tsf$.dlg@xxxxxxxxxx>:
>> On Mon, 21 Jul 2008 18:30:55 +0100, Homer wrote:
>>
>>> Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
>>>
>>>> Dell begins rolling out Ubuntu 8.04, adds media codecs
>>>
>>> So the infection begins:
>>
>> No.
>> The ability of people to play music and view videos LEGALLY without having
>> to resort to clandestine tactics bordering on theft has finally arrived in
>> the Linux world.
Nope. We already had that.
You could "buy" codecs for Linux before Dell ever thought to ship a Linux
product. In the day, you could also buy CDE, X and GL but that didn't
go over too well.
You will have to explain to us how you can steal something that's given
away freely and without cost...
[deletia]
It's not exactly like we are swapping the latest revision of Sim
or Civ or Star/Warcraft here...
--
Sure, I could use iTunes even under Linux. However, I have |||
better things to do with my time than deal with how iTunes doesn't / | \
want to play nicely with everyone else's data (namely mine). I'd
rather create a DVD using those Linux apps we're told don't exist.
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