codec support

[Dave Sullivan]

I've already done it for my own personal Dapper CDs... it automatically
installs Flash, Java, RestrictedFormats, mplayer, etc.

On Wed, 2006-02-08 at 17:26 -0400, Darryl Moore wrote:
> Hi all, I was just on slashdot where part of the discussion
> 
> http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/08/02/1815256 
> 
> was on the fact that event Ubuntu comes with popular codecs disabled,
> requiring extra work for the user to enable them. This is a barrier for
> the very demographic that Ubuntu is targeting.
> 
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats
> 
> This is largely a response to US DMCA legislation. Since the rest of the
> world (Australia excepted) does not have DMCA style legislation, does
> anyone here have any interest in repackaging Ubuntu to include those
> codecs by default. 
> 
> It could be a fun project which might highlight some software patent and
> DMCA issues.
> 
> http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=192928&threshold=-1&commentsort=0&mode=nested&cid=15834909
> 
> 
> cheers,
> darryl
> 
> 
> 
> 
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