Fedora's way forward

[Chris Adams]

Once upon a time, Eric S. Raymond <esr at thyrsus.com> said:
> I did quite a bit of web research before making my statement.  If
> Fraunhofer has made claims on decoders, this fact is unknown (or not
> disclosed) by any of the major decoder implementors.

20 seconds and Wikipedia found:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mp3#Licensing_and_patent_issues

and

http://www.mp3licensing.com/royalty/index.html

Under "PC Software Applications":
  mp3 - Decoder - US $0.75 per unit or US $50000 - US $60000 one-time paid up

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Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.