On Sun, 26 Sep 2004 15:43:27 +0200 Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason avarab@gmail.com wrote:
Then again, as we're not actually in the business of writing audio encoding software, we might just as well put up with reality and allow mp3 uploads.
This has already been discussed at great length both on wikien and on wikipedia talk:sound, and the overwhelming consensus was not to use none-free formats which would possibly lock us into proprietery software.
So instead we prefer to have every Windows user go through the same process of seeing that he can't listen to .ogg files and with great difficulty upload a special program to listen to it, where almost all of them are already having the possibility to listen to mp3s?
And if we have this policy, why are jpegs still ok? (just google for jpeg+patent+forgent to see what I mean)
I would like to change this policy, and instead of looking at patent rights, allow those and only those formats that have widely used freely available players on all of Windows, Linux and Mac.
Andre Engels