[MPlayer-dev-eng] FFII software patent demo, politics, KiSS

[Diego Biurrun]

D Richard Felker III writes:
> I'm against any kind of "patent-warning" in MPlayer. It discourages
> people from using good codecs. Better to get people used to having all
> the codecs they should, so that they're outraged when some stupid
> corporation tries to tell them they have to stop.

That's one way to see it.  The other is: Awareness of patent problems
needs to be raised so that people see the need for free formats and
have an incentive do something about it.

Diego