More Sun news: Sun promises to open-source Java

[Lee Revell]

On Fri, 2006-05-19 at 23:10 -0500, Scott Dier wrote:
> Alexander Jacob Tsykin wrote:
> > The problem with this is that:
> > a) (in my opinion) the ipod is by far the best
> 
> I chose an iaudio u2 over an ipod mini, size, price, and features seemed 
> better. (fm radio, for instance, too)
> 
> > b) many people already have ipods. Would you have them spend money on another 
> > player?
> 
> No, but they can easily choose the player they want.  It turns out that 
> in some areas of the world distributing MP3 encoders is far less legal 
> than distributing ogg vorbis encoders.  The companies that own mp3 
> patents have been amazingly restrained in locking down the mp3 format so 
> that players do not implement alternative formats.  However, it doesn't 
> make having LAME on your computer in some parts of the world legal.

Um, in the real world, people who make music and want the 40 million
people with ipods to be able to listen to it HAVE to use mp3.

Lee