Fluendo MP3 GStreamer Plugin in Main for Dapper?

John Nilsson john at milsson.nu
Fri Dec 30 18:15:41 GMT 2005


On Fri, 2005-12-30 at 09:10 -0500, Eric Dunbar wrote:
> People want want want but these patents are valid*. Just because
> something is popular doesn't mean that patents should be violated
> willy-nilly (of course, many MP3 fans have no qualms about stealing
> <ahem, borrowing> music (simply because they can... we don't steal a
> TV simply because we can) so it's not surprising that the this
> attitude goes hand-in-hand with the idea that it's right to violate
> these patents).

Please don't go there. There's nothing to be gained from this discussion
except a 3000 post flame war...

Regards,
John




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