[vorbis] Windows XP and MP3

[Victoria E. Lease]

[Paul C. Bryan]
> IMHO, this only helps Windows Media competitors, such as Vorbis. If
> Microsoft pushes this too hard, it will leave a bad taste in their users'
> collective mouths, opening their minds to more open, less restrictive
> technologies.

Indeed. Too bad Mr Farber, as quoted in the article, doesn't get the idea:

-
  "The industry doesn't want [MP3] pushed, and Microsoft
and RealNetworks don't want it pushed. The consumer is
going to eat what he's given," says David Farber, the
former chief technologist at the Federal Communications
Commission.
-

That has to be the most flagrantly obvious manner in which I've ever
seen this belief expressed, and is, by itself, testimony to the
necessity of open standards.

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