[Open-graphics] Re: Patents

[Timothy Miller]

On 9/6/06, luc <lucmars2 at orange.fr> wrote:

> > 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.
>
> Is it the same price to encode in mp3 format than to decode a mp3 file ?
> In other words, why so much contents in mp3 if the license is
> expensive ?

Early bird gets the worm?