[Open-graphics] Re: Patents

[luc]

Le mercredi 06 septembre 2006 à 16:16 -0400, Timothy Miller a écrit :
> 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?
> 
No of course. Should I conclude that "the first move, take all" answers
as well to my question, or in you mind, you rather think about the
responsability of the consumer ?