Vorbis - Aug 2002 - OT - the "Dear Thompson Media" open letter.

I must admit, reading this: http://www.xiph.org/ogg/vorbis/openletter.html 
brought out the loudest laugh in quite some time.

My kids, hearing the hub-bub, gathered around the PC to see what I was 
laughing at.  I *attempted* to explain the new mp3 licensing terms to 
my youngest daughter.

I finally hit pay-dirt when I explained to my kids the bait-and-switch, 
what Thompson Media is doing now, and what Unisys did back in the eighties.

My youngest daughter was *HORRIFIED* that it would take the equivalent of 
10,000 weeks worth of her allowance (not factoring in the exchange rate) 
to pay for *MINIMUM* license fee at 15000 USD for the hardware do-it-myself 
mp3 decoders I built back in late 1999 for myself and some buddies.

Suffice it to say, I now have three more open-source zealots in the house, 
and it was fun to watch my three kids destroy the reference board.

Good night to all - and have fun reading the slashdot link in the open
letter.  Lots of transcoding banter.

Myles Buckley
ps - the reference board was based on a overclocked 386 cpu - no possible
ogg decoding life for it.

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