[vorbis] Windows XP and MP3

[Kristoff Bonne]

Greetings,

On Thu, 12 Apr 2001, dongoodman wrote:
> if ya' haven't seen it already, check out:
> http://www.canoe.ca/MoneyWSJ/wsj2-dow.html

> sad, sad, sad. on many fronts. I don't begin to understand how this might
> work; I suppose the MP3 degradation only applies to MS encoding software...
> *shrug*
> this may, however, provide a good leveraging point for Vorbis.
I don't get it.
If this isn't the most explicit example of abuse of it's near-monopoly
position as OS-provider to 'help' their own application-software; I don't
know what is. 

Cheerio! Kr. Bonne.

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