Rahul Sundaram <sundaram@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > 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. -- <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a> -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
