ESR: Goodbye Fedora

[Les Mikesell]

Tim wrote:

>> If everyone has that attidude, things are likely to stay that way. I'd much
>> rather see people pushing Ogg and including links to download players and
>> plugins similar to the ones for Adobe's products, than try to get (nonfree)
>> licensed copies into all of the base distributions.
> 
> I'd like that, too.  But it's hamstrung by a few factors:
> 
> People with personal/portable playback hardware, that they want to keep,
> that won't play ogg.  So they'll get all their music in one format that
> works on everything that they have.
> 
> Publishers not wanting to supply files without DRM.  And, no, I don't
> want ogg to support that crap.
> 

If Lucent goes crazy suing all the people who though they had licensed 
MP3 technology, ogg might catch on real fast.

http://news.com.com/Microsoft+hit+with+1.5+billion+patent+verdict/2100-1030_3-6161480.html?tag=nefd.lede


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