Re: promoting free media codecs from GNOME

[Luis Villa <louie ximian com>]

On Thu, 2004-05-06 at 12:54 +0200, Thomas Vander Stichele wrote:
> Do people think that promoting the use of free codecs (ie, enabling
> those by default, and only use those out of the box) is the right way to
> go ?

Yes. Absolutely and 100%. I do think that being able to support non-free
codecs/protocols is unfortunately important, but whenever it is sane we
should default in all our tools to pushing free equivalents of equal
functionality.

Luis