Three Feet from Gold: Why ESR is Wrong to Advocate Compromise
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| But if multimedia codecs are the problem, then we have, in my opinion,
| the solution. We have the free codecs Ogg Vorbis and Ogg Theora. Instead
| of spending money buying technology from Apple and others, which ESR
| admits we'll have to do, we should invest it in improving the Ogg codecs.
| Instead time and energy trying to convince them why they should work with
| us, we should spend it convincing the American commercial networks and the
| European state owned radio and television corporations why they should
| offer Ogg Vorbis along with the other formats. Then we would have a
| player that wouldn't get us sued, which seems to be the principal
| motivation behind ESR's willingness to compromise.
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| And a bad compromise it would be. To sign on to proprietary codecs
| means signing on to Digital Rights Management. Have we gone so far to
| now cave in to the MPAA and the RIAA? And with the Linux desktop at
| its highest level of usability, to do this know would be truly stopping
| three feet from gold.
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