On Dec 1, 2007 7:52 PM, Raj Mathur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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''? ;)
i find this statement hard-to-believe. IIS Fraunhofer cannot or does not exercise its legal rights over mp3 in india? according to wikipedia they made 100million euros from mp3 by 2005. you mean to say if i write a commercial software for mp3 playback or encoding i don't have to pay IIS fraunhofer? what if i make some commodity hardware that works with mp3? please explain. :-) niyam > > Regards, > > -- Raju > -- > Raj Mathur [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kandalaya.org/ > Freedom in Technology & Software || February 2008 || http://freed.in/ > GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F > PsyTrance & Chill: http://schizoid.in/ || It is the mind that moves > > _______________________________________________ > ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org > http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd > Next Event: http://freed.in - February 22/23, 2008 > Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi > http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/ > -- niyam bhushan _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Next Event: http://freed.in - February 22/23, 2008 Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
