making deals with M$
There is (again) absolutely no truth to the rumour that Canonical has done a deal with Microsoft for access to codecs - either in return for money, or for some other quid-pro-quo.
The recently-announced netbook remix is a prototype of the sort of platform that Canonical is working on with OEM's. Those OEM's almost always want to make sure that media is *legally* playable by the users who purchase their devices, and Canonical will gladly work with companies like Real Media or Fluendo to make sure that is possible. If
you are an OEM you should be able to ship machines based on Ubuntu and not break the law, and if you are an individual user you should be able to purchase media codecs and not break the law. Those codecs include things like Flash, MP3-4, WMV, QuickTime and so on.
That said, I will defend (again) the importance of being willing to work with Microsoft, under reasonable and transparent conditions, to further goals that we share, if the opportunity arises.
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