KDE Crippleware?

[kwall@kurtwerks.com]

Interesting article over at CNET:

http://news.com.com/2100-1001-959434.html

Bero left Red Hat over their modifications to KDE. The move that
particularly irks me is not that RH dropped MP3 players due to 
patent/license concerns, but that they modified source code to
disable MP3 support:

"Red Hat decided to modify the audio players so they can't play 
MP3 files to avoid the risk of legal challenges stemming from 
differences between the terms of MP3-related patent licenses and 
the General Public License (GPL) that Red Hat favors, Troan said. 
The GPL requires that anyone be allowed to redistribute software 
covered by it; patent licensees won't necessarily grant such rights."

On the up side, the O(1) scheduler is "standard" and it ships with
GCC 3.2.

Kurt
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