From esr at thyrsus.com Wed Mar 29 09:50:17 2006 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============2714808561588621270==" MIME-Version: 1.0 From: Eric S. Raymond To: devel at lists.fedoraproject.org Subject: Re: Fedora's way forward Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 09:53:50 -0500 Message-ID: <20060329145350.GA10714@thyrsus.com> In-Reply-To: 1143614766.3802.621.camel@sundaram.pnq.redhat.com --===============2714808561588621270== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Rahul Sundaram : > You arent? The claim that mp3 wasnt patented followed up statements that > Red Hat should pay up a patent license for half a million dollars surely > looked like controversial to me from a open source advocate. I never claimed MP3 wasn't patented, and $50K is not half a million. Keep your facts straight, at least. = > Thats exactly what would happen. You can talk about all you want about > support open formats but if you dont actually build up volume nobody is > going to use it. If mp3 was supported out of the box in Fedora, why > would there be any incentive left for anyone to use ogg codecs? Um...because Ogg is a better format? > Those are Fedora users too. Should we abandon them? Zealots drive me crazy. Poke one in the wrong place and his brain just shuts down entirely. Read my lips: nobody is talking about 'abandoning' any user, distribution, or format. Adding support for what users actually want is not abandonment. -- = Eric S. Raymond --===============2714808561588621270==--