[vorbis] Windows XP and MP3

[Monty]

> 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.

I doubt Mr. farber is arguing this is a *good* thing, just that it's
the way things are (whether we like it or not).  In the context of
mass-consumerism, I fear he's right.

Monty

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