planettrash

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   by planettrash 17y ago

   I don't think that is a problem. Part of the price of the OS goes into the codec. Open Solaris tries to get around this, by getting you to pay for the codec after install. Of course not paying is the ideal outcome, for most consumers.
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   by planettrash 17y ago

   Here here. Surely it's not hard to make an operating system and browser that makes it almost transparent to install a codec or bit of software. I agree, get gstreamer or something else to work seamlessly. And at the same time, give me the
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   by planettrash 17y ago

   I am lost in this debate. If the decoder is a paid for plugin. Then it makes sense for it not to be shipped. Why can't Google buy out the h.264 tech and give it to us all? Why do we need the video tag anyway? Doesn't it make more sense to
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   by planettrash 17y ago

   To place a disclaimer 'this is not fact' before everything you say, is a bit tedious.
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   by planettrash 17y ago

   I read the article with the word 'nerd' replaced by the word 'men'.
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   by planettrash 17y ago

   I like my Opera as it is thanks.
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   by planettrash 17y ago

   A concern might be that you expose your server side code. Though many os projects do this by design.
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   by planettrash 17y ago

   The term 'web designer' means different things to different people. Expanding the term web to website - creates: 'website designer'. And it reads as someone that can design websites. It doesn't even imply that they can create or implement