Pete/Pcb21 wrote:
Note: we bend over backwards to support all major browsers (minimizing JavaScript etc) because most people cannot change their browser. Yet when we come to sound, we are changing tack.
To my knowledge, we don't offer any content which would be impossible for people to view using free software for reasons related to software patents. Free browsers can and do display javascript, java, etc.
Notice that the situation with mp3's is much worse than it was with gif's when the gif patents were still existing. With gif, free software could view them no problem. But free software could not _create_ them.
With mp3, free software can't view them or play them.
Therefore, when we encourage people to use the mp3 format, we are encouraging them not to use free software, and we continue the illusion that proprietary software is better somehow.
--Jimbo