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planettrash

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    Comment #1201918

    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 cours…

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    Comment #1201906

    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 …

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    Comment #1201824

    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 w…

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    Comment #1171025

    To place a disclaimer 'this is not fact' before everything you say, is a bit tedious.

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    Comment #1171014

    I read the article with the word 'nerd' replaced by the word 'men'.

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    Comment #1170969

    I like my Opera as it is thanks.

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    Comment #1170946

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

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    Comment #1170022

    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 website…