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MP3's Loss, Open Source's Gain

Posted by kdawson on 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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  1. am I the only one who hates forced subject? by Dance_Dance_Karnov · · Score: 1, Troll

    This is all just so much noise and fury signifying nothing. MP3 will never die. Vorbis will never become ubiquitous.

  2. Sure. What ever you say... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Oh yes, I forgot: Wikipedia is the final word on anything important... Yeah right.

  3. You fail It by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    to 3own7oad the

  4. Re:is storage that big of an issue anymore? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    that's what your mom thought about her pussy and her brown rosebud. But that was before I introduced her to the joys of a good ass-fucking.