On 4/13/06, Bill Crawford <billcrawford1970(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Wednesday 05 April 2006 22:22, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> What is it with the zeolots on this list, anyway? No contact with reality
> at *all*...
> --
> <a
href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S.
Raymond</a>
... thus disproving the claim that all americans do not understand irony ;)
Eric, you *should* go talk to Fraunhöfer, among others. Although it certainly
would be cool for Red Hat (and/or others) to negotiate too. However as has
been mentioned several times, what is really needed is complete freedom, and
as such this negotiation (or at least the initial approach) does seem more
appropriate for a non-commercial representative (well, not a corporate one).
And of the encoder too... a free player is only of marginal use
without a free encoder. Unless we are to think that free software
users should be content to only consume content.