I agree with Henne on the multimedia topic. Users clearly see that multimedia is key factor, and they want multimedia working good on their computer. The question of the licence and of patents was clarified perfectly by Henne.

What I don’t understand from the survey is if the openSUSE community is growing or not. We see participation increased, but was this due to new members? Or was this due to the same members that become more active? I think it is something which should be investigated in a future survey.

Finally, I appreciate that users put at the first place the stability. It seems quite a clear message.

Regards,
Alberto

Thats really a misconception. Nearly all major multimedia applications are published under an OSS license. MPlayer, xine, gstreamer and all the different codec implementations. The problem is that nearly all multimedia codec’s are covered by patents. The patent holders don’t care what license your application is “sold” under. They only care for their cut. So this result is really not contradictory but a clear message to us to provide a better multimedia integration which in turn means for us to pay the patent holders. I know this is scary and stuff but we can deal with other entities in this matter, why cant we with the multimedia mafia?

I would like to see a question like : “What do you think about/How do you rate quality of KDE/GNOME/Xfce implementation in openSUSE?”.