On Dec 1, 2007 5:18 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On 01-Dec-07, at 4:16 PM, Manish wrote:
>
> >> I meant, can't play ogg from the website. Yes, it is weird. In my
> >> mac, firefox hangs and has to be killed when it accesses that site.
> >
> > I kinda liked the website's purpose.  But who's the target audience
> > given that it works only some specific OS's with specific browsers
> > with specific plugins (this is understandable due to ogg).. or may be
> > it is just a proof-of-concept/demo or have I missed the idea
> > completely?
>
> the target audience is anyone  who wants to learn any Indian
> language. Unfortunately we are a foss organisation, so cannot use non-
> free stuff - so we are in the soup. I am strongly tempted to use wav
> or something which the janata can use. But if we do that - aren't we
> throwing in the towel? On the other hand, seeing the discussion on
> this and every other mailing list on how the faithful are happily
> listening to mp3 and wav files I suddenly wondered why not us too?

For the same resons you did in the first place.  Not everybody has the
patience and conviction to follow through on such difficult
endaevours.

Now we can't afford for everyone to take the easy way out, can we. ;-)

-- 
Manish

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