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[Hugo Roy]

Hello Sam,

Allow me just to answer to this point,

Le mercredi 31 mars 2010 à 21:42 +0100, Sam Liddicott a écrit :
> For example: most users cannot handle ogg for flac files. Most users
> who can't accept mp3 but can accept ogg do so out of conscious
> rejection of mp3. And so the argument for ogg is political and not
> about interoperability and therfore will seem dishonest to
> non-technical readers who will then doubt the entire argument. Imagine
> when nearly everyone they send an ogg to (after the initial difficulty
> of producing the ogg - from an mp3) needs to ask what an ogg is and
> how to play it. It will soon be apparent that mp3 should have been
> used.

I have to say that it is not true, because a lot of very common and
famous software can handle those files.

Examples: VLC & Firefox 3.5.
The first one is easy to install and very popular.

Best,
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  Hugo Roy                           im: hugo at jabber.fsfe.org 
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