Dave announces LottaLinuxLinks is now ogg only

[greggh]

http://lottalinuxlinks.com/blog/2009/10/04#1254645660

Podcast 119 from lottalinuxlinks.com.
Topics include:

In today's podcast, dave calls it quits with the mp3 file format...

He lists supporting freedom, being the right thing to do, and not wanting to promote a file format that inconveniences Gnu/Linux users, as some of his reasons for the move.

[har91]

I kinda understand the "file format that inconveniences Gnu/Linux users", even so more on USA. I don't feel that personally yet.
My Creative Zen doesn't support ogg but I will still listen to Dave on the computer.

It seems he's also dropping the call in show but that one I never heard so..

[jamathis]

I applaud Dave for going ogg only. Support for ogg on portable media players is getting better. Just recently I bought a brand new Sansa Fuze which plays ogg right out of the box. Also I recently installed Rockbox on my old Sansa E250R and it now plays ogg flawlessly. Now I no longer download mp3s of my favorite podcasts and I rip my CDs to ogg now as well.

[dann]

That bastard has restricted my freedom to listen to LLL in the format of my choice. Now I am forced to listen to ogg. To hell with him!

[Claudio]

To hell with him!

*Insert obligatory Arnold Schwarzenegger accent here.*

[Wally Balljacker]

http://lottalinuxlinks.com/blog/2009/10/04#1254645660

Podcast 119 from lottalinuxlinks.com.
Topics include:

In today's podcast, dave calls it quits with the mp3 file format...

He lists supporting freedom, being the right thing to do, and not wanting to promote a file format that inconveniences Gnu/Linux users, as some of his reasons for the move.

By what logic does offering a choice of formats create an inconvenience? If anything it's the other way around. Now users of portable devices have to convert the files. That surely isn't an inconvenience...

[greggh]

http://lottalinuxlinks.com/blog/2009/10/04#1254645660

Podcast 119 from lottalinuxlinks.com.
Topics include:

In today's podcast, dave calls it quits with the mp3 file format...

He lists supporting freedom, being the right thing to do, and not wanting to promote a file format that inconveniences Gnu/Linux users, as some of his reasons for the move.

By what logic does offering a choice of formats create an inconvenience? If anything it's the other way around. Now users of portable devices have to convert the files. That surely isn't an inconvenience...

Promotion of a file format that takes away the user's freedom and subjugates the user inconveniences users in the long run. This is so because in promoting a file format which requires a large number of users around the world to violate laws in order to play it you do your part in helping to discourage the use of file formats that respect the user's freedom.