[Open-graphics] Re: Patents

Wed Sep 6 15:08:13 EDT 2006

On Wednesday 06 September 2006 19:13, James Richard Tyrer wrote:
>
> IIUC, the AAC is licensed in a reasonable manner like MPEG4 and Apple
> uses AAC so one would think that competition would force Thompson to
> revise their royalty system.

Except for the huge amount of content out there that is in mp3 format. 
I'd buy a player that only supports Ogg Vorbis, because I don't 
download music off of today's P2P network, and I have all my CDs 
encoded as Vorbis. But I'm an exception. I don't think anyone but Apple 
could sell a music player without mp3 support actually.

Lourens
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