Should We Fight for Ogg Vorbis?
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| One thing I should state immediately is that I think that Ogg Vorbis is
| great: it's cool technology doing all the right things in the right way.
| So my doubts about this campaign have nothing to do with any weaknesses in
| Ogg. It's just that I wonder whether this is really something the free
| software world should be expending much energy on when there are other
| more pressing problems. Whereas DRM and software patents, for example, are
| manifestly and unequivocally bad for free software (and indeed for
| everyone), that doesn't seem to be true for the MP3 format.
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http://www.linuxjournal.com/node/1000238
Related:
Platform independent solution to watch "Streaming Service of the Council of
the European Union."
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| The "Streaming Service of the Council of the European Union"
| should be available for everybody and not only for Mac and MS
| Windows users.
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http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/eu_streaming_service_for_everybody
'Play OGG': FSF launches free audio format campaign
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| The Free Software
| Foundation (FSF) today launched PlayOGG.org, a campaign to encourage
| use of the patent- and license-free standard OGG Vorbis as an
| ethically, legally and technically superior audio alternative to
| the proprietary MP3 format.
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http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-fsf/2007-05/msg00001.html
Ogg Vorbis Gaining Industry Support
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| While Ogg Vorbis format has not gained much adoption in music
| sales and portable players, it is not an unsupported format in
| the industry. Toy manufacturers (e.g. speaking dolls), voice
| warning systems, and reactive audio devices exploit Ogg Vorbis
| for its good quality at small bit-rates.
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http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/06/1931244&from=rss
Alcatel-Lucent says $1.5 billion not enough from Microsoft
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| Alcatel-Lucent said in a court filing that $1.5 billion is not
| enough to properly compensate it for Microsoft Corp.'s infringement
| of two digital audio patents.
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http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/alcatel-lucent-says-15-billion-not/story.aspx?guid=%7B3B7D3262%2DF68F%2D4BEC%2D94C1%2D5C0A0EEE8021%7D&siteid=yhoof
http://tinyurl.com/36hu5v
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