Thursday, July 19, 2007
Illegal Codecs Put Me Off Linux
Link to complete article at Datamation
It is a shame to be thwarted by legal and business (greed) issues, because compared to Windows or Mac OS X, Linux is clearly the technical leader. These audio/video issues have soured me on the whole Linux idea.
Maybe Sun's Solaris will be my next trial. - Frank
"Linux has a number of really strong points that go beyond the price (reliability, ease of use and low hardware requirements to name but a few), but the operating system falls short when it comes to legally supporting file formats such as MP3, WMA/WMV and DVDs. It’s not that you don’t have support for these formats available, it’s that adding support means entering into some really shady legal territory."A short, but very accurate article. I just set up a laptop myself, using Ubuntu (7.04), and was blown away by ease of installation, speed, useful user interface, and tremendous breadth of applications. But my first email received, included a movie clip in WMV format and I spent the next day downloading crap to get it to play. :-(- Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
It is a shame to be thwarted by legal and business (greed) issues, because compared to Windows or Mac OS X, Linux is clearly the technical leader. These audio/video issues have soured me on the whole Linux idea.
Maybe Sun's Solaris will be my next trial. - Frank
Labels: Geek_stuff
