reality & freedom

reality & freedom

Posted Jan 3, 2006 15:30 UTC (Tue) by Felix.Braun (subscriber, #3032)
In reply to: reality & freedom by pjm
Parent article: GStreamer's MP3 for Linux

Can Fluendo also write a program that lets me play vorbis files on my portable media player? Didn't think so.

Of course, people who care about software freedom could vote with their euros and buy media players that do play vorbis. But try telling that to the novice computer users that some linux distributions are trying to attract. To these people software freedom looks like an inhibition to use gadgets that run quite well under competing setups.

So, by lowering the inhibitions to such users, Fluendo is arguably helping Linux adoption by a wider public. Which might even help convince hardware vendors to support alternative audio formats in their firmware.

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