MP3's Loss, Open Source's Gain

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday February 27, 2007 @09:13AM from the chicken-or-the-ogg dept.

nadamsieee refers us to a piece up at Wired on the fallout from Microsoft's recent courtroom loss to Alcatel-Lucent over MP3 patents. From the article: "Alcatel-Lucent isn't the only winner in a federal jury's $1.52 billion patent infringement award against Microsoft this week. Other beneficiaries are the many rivals to the MP3 audio-compression format... Now, with a cloud over the de facto industry standard, companies that rely on MP3 may finally have sufficient motivation to move on. And that raises some tantalizing possibilities, including a real long shot: Open-source, royalty-free formats win."

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Oh, fuck ogg vorbis by afroblanco23 · 2007-02-27 18:37 · Score: 0, Flamebait

I'm serious, if I'm trading music with you and you give me some neckbeardy ogg vorbis shit that is supported by nothing, I'm going to be pissed. Seriously, you can whine on for hours about why your shit is better, but that won't make me care. Give me mp3, it's supported by everything, and I get a secret amount of glee from the fact that the self-righteous shits on slashdot want me to use something different. Bite me!