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Fedora and MP3

Fedora and MP3

Posted Apr 6, 2006 5:11 UTC (Thu) by wtogami (subscriber, #32325)
In reply to: Fedora and MP3 by jmorris42
Parent article: Fedora and MP3

> It wouldn't be quite as bad if they hadn't already pulled
> the 'secret legal problems' excuse with mono only to reverse
> course without explanation.

http://gregdek.livejournal.com/4008.html
To clarify, we did explain the MONO thing. We had to keep quiet for a while because at the time we were busy building this patent alliance, which is a way to use the existing system to protect certain FOSS applications from patent attack from certain players like Microsoft.


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