[TriLUG] RH8 and Evolution Problem

[Tanner Lovelace]

On Sat, 2002-10-05 at 16:58, Kevin Sonney wrote:

> Then take it up with the lawyers. There are PATENT ISSUES with mp3
> decoder inclusion. On distros prior to 8.0, the owner of said
> patent didn't have an issue, and there's no clear statement that a
> commercially released GNU/Linux Distro won't be forced to pay $.75 per
> decoder shipped.

Kevin,

I must respectfully disagree with your above statement that
something has changed just for 8.0.  The slashdot story,
notwithstanding, Thompson Multimedia (or whatever the patent
owner's name is) has stated that *nothing whatsoever* has
changed in their patent stance.  Redhat's position just
seems like a lot of fear mongering.  But, you know what,
I'm actually slightly glad they did it because hopefully it
will drive people to try something else besides Redhat. :-)

Tanner
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