No subject

They can't uphold the patent and adhear to the gpl if they  include mp3 decoders
in the distribution. It is safest for them to
drop mp3  support.
You might not like it; you might not aprove of it but you
can allways go to rpmfind.net and get an  mpg123 rpm
or build your own binaries from source.

You  may object to the removal of lilo in the next release of Redhat but obviously
grub has proven stable enough through the 7.x releases of
Redhat.
Grub understands file systems;  it can handle kernle images moving
and it can decompress on the fly. Lilo can not do any of this;
encoding the  kernel location ina block list format t hat gets trashed if  you
move any image around.
I would say with all the rh testing; we will see grub 1.0 sooner rather
than later.

Regards, Kerry.
On Sun, Oct 06, 2002 at 12:47:07PM -0500, Adam Myrow wrote:
> On Sun, 6 Oct 2002, Janina Sajka wrote:
> > Seems to me you can't have it both ways, logically speaking. Not that
> > anyone needs to be logical, I guess. But, I don't understand the
> > principles you seem to be trying to espouse here. What are they,
> > exactly?
> >
> 
> I guess what I am trying to say is that Redhat is breaking compatibility
> for no logical reason other than to promote themselves as being ahead of
> the pack.  Dropping MP3 support in this release, stating that they are
> dropping Lilo in the next release, and this clock thing.  It has nothing
> to do with the GPL here.  The GPL lets them do all this, but I just don't
> agree with the whole idea.  Let me ask you something.  Suppose the next
> release of Redhat decides to drop DOS and VFAT filesystem support.  Would
> that not upset a lot of people who still expect to be able to read their
> Windows partitions in Linux?  They could argue that they are dropping
> support for FAT and VfFAT because by supporting these filesystem formats,
> they are supporting a closed OS.  You have to draw the line somewhere in
> how rigidly you will follow the teachings of Richard Stalman and how much
> you will support those who are trying to migrate from the closed world of
> Windows to the open world of Linux.  Consumers are hard to change, so we
> need to slowly pull them to Linux.
> 
> 
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