codec support

[Darryl Moore]

easyubuntu is better, however it still makes people wonder if what they
are doing is right. Of course it is right! Easyubuntu has an American
perspective on it so Decss becomes 'grey' when actually it is very
clearly white (at least in Canada) 

it is also an extra step which again people will look at and say "but
this stuff should be here to begin with"

Ubuntu has to install with the same functionality as Windows. More!
before people will accept it.

On Wed, 2006-08-02 at 19:28 -0400, Mathieu Charron wrote:
> I did the same think... it took me forever to install a working MP3
> codec but it worked.
> At least, they give you the choice to install them or not.
> 
> I find that: http://easyubuntu.freecontrib.org/ 
> it's a good idea I think, it let you decide what to do. I think it
> simply download them from the universe of multi-universe repository
> and run some script to install them correctly.
> 
> Mathieu Charron
> 
> On 8/2/06, Dave Sullivan <demsullivan at gmail.com> wrote:
>         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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