More Sun news: Sun promises to open-source Java

Alexander Jacob Tsykin stsykin at gmail.com
Sat May 20 05:54:46 BST 2006


On Saturday 20 May 2006 14:10, 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)
>
I have an ipod video. I got is because it's very small, I like the wheel, and 
it works well for me (I've had another ipod before). Many people agree with 
meh is pretty obvious considering how much apple dominates the portable music 
player market. Please do not interret this to mean that the ipod is 
definitely better or there is something wrong with other players, rather it 
is my personal preference.
> > 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.
>
however, this does not seem so common, and lets face facts. Nobody cares that 
much about illegal software. Plenty of people in the USA use libdvdcss. 
Plenty of people in those jurisdictions use lame.

Sasha



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