Ralph Angenendt wrote: > John Rudd wrote: >> Kahlil Johnson wrote: >>> Wow, still no OGG.... when will maemo people ever learn. Who cares >>> about AAC, give us OGG. >> Huh. I have many AAC files. I have no OGG files. Why should even >> remotely care about OGG? > > How weird. I have no AAC files but a big bunch of ogg files, why should > I even remotely care about AAC? > > IOW: What is the point you are trying to make? Pretty simple: why should I be upset (or sympathetic to the upset that Kahlil was expressing by trashing another format) about the lack of OGG support, or the presence of AAC support. >> Or is this one of those "you absolutely need it for interesting content >> in Europe, but it's absolutely useless for content in the Americas" type >> situations? > > Huh? What does it have to do with America/Europe? It's about *open* and > *free* music codecs - neither AAC nor MP3 are free. It doesn't necessarily have anything to do with America/Europe. The question was asking "_does_ it have something to do with America/Europe" ... as in, I'm trying to figure out why OGG support would be so important as to induce the comments Kahlil made. And, no, it's not about "open and free". Since the developers in question are Nokia (since the comment was directed at the release of the N810 itself, and not a request for more 3rd party development), it's about how much effort the developers need to put into supporting something vs. the amount of return they get from supporting it. Given all of the other things that are on Nokia's plate for the internet tablet development, why should OGG be a priority? What thing only comes in OGG format, that they need to support now, instead of later? Or that they need to support directly, instead of leaving to the efforts of 3rd party support? I'm as interested in open and free as the next person, but there's nothing about the comment I was replying to that captures that. > And I don't really see the problem with supporting *also* ogg. I don't either. But that's clearly not what the initial request was about, or it wouldn't have also attacked another format. By asserting a value judgment about "AAC vs OGG", that then leaves the question of what value is actually being implied in that assertion. If the person just wanted another format to be supported, then they could have just said that. But they didn't. If they just wanted an open/free format to be supported, then they could have just said that. But they didn't.
