These press releases speak themselves:
Read the excellent post on Fedora was right about MP3!.
- Huge MP3 Patent Judgment Against Microsoft Threatens Other Tech Firms - Fox News
- Jury orders Microsoft to pay $1.52B - Business Week
- Microsoft loses case - BBC 6 Music
Read the excellent post on Fedora was right about MP3!.
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It's not open-source that's the issue. There's plenty of oss/gpl mp3 code (e.g. libmad, lame).
mp3 is nonfree due to patents, period.
Rex: Thanks for pointing that out. I updated the blog to reflect it.
As someone said before: show the infringing codes and we will remove them.