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[Advocate Play Ogg] Correction to the PlayOgg page


From: Yuhong Bao
Subject: [Advocate Play Ogg] Correction to the PlayOgg page
Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2007 07:06:57 -0000

This:

"Microsoft had to pay $1.5 billion after being sued for using MP3 without a 
license. With Ogg Vorbis, they would have been safe!"

Should be this:

"Microsoft was ordered to pay $1.5 billion after being sued by Alcatel-Lucent, 
who claimed that some of their patents affected MP3. Eventually Microsoft won a 
reversal of this order.
However, with Ogg Vorbis, they would have been safe from all this!

Under "Choose Free Software!" it should be:

"Also, the MP3 patents makes it impossible to use free software to play MP3s, 
because it would be impossible to pay the royalties required. That is 
espicially important if you are switching to GNU/Linux. There is one player for 
MP3s that are free software, except that it have a patent license that is more 
restrictive. The GPL prevents that, but that player is licensed under another 
free software license. "

Yuhong Bao
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