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[Daniel Carrera]

Toby Kelsey wrote:
> so it seems that legal action over the MP3 format is not a practical
> problem for open-source distributions and users.

There might be. Does Ubuntu qualify as non-commercial use? There is a 
company behind it that makes money from it (okay, it makes less money 
than it spends, but I don't think the patent holders will care). There 
might also be a philosophical side to the problem.

Cheers,
Daniel.
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