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SAJChurchey:
I agree entirely that they may not be forcing upgrades.  Ultimately, the IT depts. will more than likely choose to upgrade to keep their costs down, rather than find and install updates manually.  I just think RH is taking advantage of this mindset, and you have to agree that RH is trying to set itself apart so that it can appeal to the desktop market.  They've changed KDE and GNOME to satisfy what they feel is the need for a unifed WM.  The question is will Linux lose it's identity and just be known as RH to the general public in a few yrs.  Especially, w/ Mandrake failing.  For instance, when people think of Lindows, they tend to forget that it's Linux.  It's just not all that important to the typical computer user.

rtgwbmsr:

quote:Originally posted by The Master of Reality / Bob:
well. red hat did get rid of MP3 format support because it was proprietary, so maybe they are just a bit confused right now?
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I'm happy with that decision. Ogg is a far superior standard.

And about supporting older versions - they keep the older manuals on their site (as much as I haven't been there in over a month). Thats all you need - RTFM.

SAJChurchey:

quote:Originally posted by The Muffin Man:

I'm happy with that decision. Ogg is a far superior standard.

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Are you trying to say that RH is trying to stop supporting some standards in the promotion of others, rather than support all of them.  Doesn't that sound a little bit shady?  I like RH, but I also don't trust any company blindly.

flap:
No, he's trying to say that OGG is a better standard. RH should be promoting free and open formats like OGG at the expense of patented ones like MP3.

SAJChurchey:
Sure OGG may be an open and better standard, but that doesn't necessarily mean exclude mp3. All formats should be made available to the user.

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