On Saturday 01 Dec 2007, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
> [snip]
> Is it true that wav and mp3 are 
> considered proprietary and that no FOSS person can listen to them? I
> am having problems with arichuvadi because of this - everything is in
> ogg, and no-one except Suse and Mandriva users can use it.

MP3 isn't proprietary, at least not in India.  Other countries that have 
software patents may have issues, but then should we care about ``the 
rest of the world''? ;)

Regards,

-- Raju
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