On Wednesday 01 December 2004 10:58, Scott Talbot wrote:
Not to start a war, but AFAIK, DMCA has only been used to
stop a
company from distributing a software that would copy DVD's (that was
it's intended purpose).
Wasn't there a Swede named Johanson or similar who got dudded over this? His
software had legal uses but could also be used illegally.
The reason Red Hat won't include a DVD player is the same
as the
reason they don't ship an MP3 player, i.e. the formats are not open source.
This is the stated purpose of Fedora, to put together a Distro of
completely Open source products.
I b'lieve he problem with mp3 is patents. Altogether a different animal.
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