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[Ian Meyer]

However, Dell does not simply pay royalties for each DVD-decoding  
machine they ship. Windows doesn't even include DVD-playing software.  
Dell has to purchase copies of something like WinDVD or another 3rd  
party DVD player to bundle with Windows for DVD playback.

The closest it looks like legal DVD playback has come to Linux is  
Intervideo's LinDVD (they're the same company that makes WinDVD), but  
the website says: "LinDVD, InterVideo's Linux software DVD player, is  
currently available only to manufacturers for evaluation and  
integration." (It also looks like the page that is on, here: http:// 
www.intervideo.com/jsp/LinDVD.jsp is quite out of date.)

So the probles remain: there is noone to pay royalties to for legal  
DVD playback on Linux, you cannot pay a royalty to make violating the  
GPL legal, etc.

~ian

On May 2, 2007, at 10:44 AM, Cristóbal Palmer wrote:

> You forget that Dell has the wherewithal to pay for licenses that make
> some (eg. DVD playback) features legal, and they certainly will do
> that.
>
> Furthermore, Dell is _already_ footing that bill when they sell XP and
> Vista machines. For Dell this isn't just about giving the consumer
> what (s)he wants; this is about seeing how feasible it is to move away
> from Microsoft.
>
> Cheers,
> CMP
>
> On 5/2/07, Ian Meyer <ianmeyer at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Here's food for thought:
>>
>> Part of what makes Ubuntu attractive is what it includes. The problem
>> is this also meant is includes software that violates the DMCA,
>> patent law, that infringes on multiple, enforced patents, and through
>> its inclusion of binary-only kernel drivers, violates the GPL.
>>
>> Does Dell really want to open themselves up to this kind of legal
>> vulnerability?
>>
>> Methinks someone at Dell just hasn't realized all this yet.
>>
>> ~ian
>>
>> ps: I stole my information from spot, whom I trust, so plz2not flame
>> me asking for references for the allegations.
>>
>> On May 1, 2007, at 4:29 PM, Kevin Jones wrote:
>>
>> > Dell introduces Ubuntu 7.04 on desktops and laptops:
>> > http://news.com.com/Dell+picks+Ubuntu+for+Linux+PCs/
>> > 2100-7344_3-6180419.html?tag=cd.lede
>> >
>> > FreeBSD 6.2 is released to the public:
>> > http://www.freebsd.org/where.html
>> >
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