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On Sunday 27 November 2005 4:37 pm, Tom Brough wrote: > Gentlemen Please, > > >DO NOT USE MP3!!! For .. sake, Matt. You are deliberately compromising > > your free software browser with proprietary rubbish. > > This forum is public and there are minors subscribed to it. Please can > we tone it down a bit. Yes, sorry. (Just had a similar tone message about Scheme on a separate list - it happens occasionally.) > I value free software, but I also value my > freedom of choice, we can't expect everyone to follow or understand all > our principles all at once. Just as long as we don't hide from them. > I have been using free software for some > years now and I'm sure some of you would be shocked at the non free > things that I still do. (Like use a set top box with proprietary > software embedded). Depends if there is a free software alternative. > As a regular subscriber to the BBC goDigital site where the weekly > wroldservice programme is available as a pod cast in MP3 format I yet > again infringe Neils perfect vision, but on the other hand much of the > news is to do with developing word IT issues. The information is > valuable to me and I would dearly love the BBC to issue the pod cast in > ogg format I can't see them moving that way quickly. http://www.bbc.co.uk/opensource/ > If the BBC where to > move to ogg, I think they would loose subscribers Not necessarily, what we need is the option to use ogg. There's no guarantee that podcasting isn't just another fad. If a well supported format takes the place of mp3, the BBC will switch. They are working on other open source media formats for video etc. Our support for ogg and other free software formats (which are preferable to just 'open source' formats) is important in deciding how new formats are designed. > and that would be a > shame because the message is equally valid in MP3 or OGG. So please > don't ask me to forgo my news feed on a matter of principal. My issue was with personal audio files - we should not encourage MP3 because it is still patented, a free alternative exists and all free software that copes with mp3 can also cope with ogg. Where we have the means to use ogg, it is a matter of principle that we do so. -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/
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