On 06/12/05, Nico R. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Carlos Martín wrote: > > What do you have against the MP3 format? Yeah, I know, proprietary, > > royalties... but I mean, do you hate it so much that you don't want > > your player to support it? > > I dislike it being proprietary, yes. The other thing is that I was told > that players not implementing it would (at least in theory) be cheaper. > Well, in this case, that's a non-issue, though ...
Sure, you don't have to pay royalties, but I'm not sure if the vendor would pass on the savings onto the consumer. The royalties might also be just for the coding and not decoding, so there would be no difference on the price of the device. I'm not too sure here. Basically, I wouldn't think there are any because there's just no market for it. Image a computer that was unable to run Windows or MacOS. You can run any BSD, Linux, OpenSolaris... It'd be a great computer, everything open, but if most people aren't gonna want to use it, you just don't produce it. Again, I hope we can do this one day, but today, that's not the case. cmn -- Carlos Martín Nieto http://www.cmartin.tk "¿Cómo voy a decir bobadas si soy mudo?" -- CACHAI -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-chat FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
