On Sat, 16 Oct 2010 18:48:28 +0200
Valent Turkovic <
valent.turkovic@gmail.com> wrote:
> Audio and video codecs including flash are preinstalled. We are going
> the path of Linux Mint to make user experience best as possible right
> out of the box, and for not that means also including few non-open
> components. As soon as they become redundant we will drop them for
> open source ones. But unfortunately for now there must be few
> proprietary pieces in order to make linux destop usable for non geeks
> and non developers ie. regular users.
>
>
I did a search a few years ago, and I think the patents on mpeg