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Canonical Explains Decision to License H.264 For Ubuntu

Posted by timothy on from the less-painful-to-pay dept.

tux writes with this snippet from The Register: "Ubuntu's commercial sponsor Canonical has tried to clarify how — if not why — it has licensed a closed-source and patented codec for video on PCs running its Linux. Canonical is the first Linux shop to have agreed to license the codec in question, H.264, from MPEG LA. Even though Red Hat and Novell are also available for use on PCs, they have not licensed H.264."

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  1. First post! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    First post!

  2. Re:Good thing by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I posted it anonymously because I got modded down into oblivion in a Google discussion a few weeks ago and slashdot allows only 2 posts a day with -1 karma, which haven't improved since then because people tend to mod posts already with -1 as troll or redundant without a reason.

    -sopssa

  3. Re:Misleading title and summary by WrongSizeGlass · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Reading the article and linked articles points out ...

    But I'm illiterate, you insensitive clod!

  4. Re:WHY? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    shit changes get over it

  5. Re:Good thing by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Being able to play the media that everyone else is able to for free is a pretty big "thing."

    Nice astroturfing for Micro...sorry, CANONICAL though. Cocksucker.