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Re: The MP3 patent debacle
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2007 07:26:09 -0500
Begin forwarded message: From: Andrew Pam <xanni () glasswings com au> Date: February 25, 2007 3:06:53 AM EST To: dave () farber net Subject: Re: [IP] Re: The MP3 patent debacle On Sun, 2007-02-25 at 02:53 -0500, David Farber wrote:
As to compression -- you should have the option of getting the extreme compression if you want. But if it's going to cost billions of dollars for the license think about putting that money into advancing generic capacity instead of just giving Alcatel a lottery ticket.
Or you could use the patent-free OGG Vorbis codec instead: http://www.vorbis.com/ More and more hardware players support the Vorbis format: http://wiki.xiph.org/VorbisHardware If you prefer lossless compression, there is the FLAC format: http://flac.sourceforge.net/ Regards, Andrew-- mailto:xanni () xanadu net Andrew Pam
http://www.xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu http://www.glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wingshttp://www.sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
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