Rahul Sundaram <sundaram(a)fedoraproject.org>:
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.
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