crazy world.. (and podcasts, audiobooks etc)

[Michael Shigorin]

On Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 12:38:56PM -0400, Derek Broughton wrote:
> >> They then release the entire book under the CC (Creative
> >> Commons) License and record the audio book in a proprietary
> >> audio codec.
> > Does it bother you that much?
> It doesn

"Count me out ...in" (c) Lennon, "Revolution"

Explain please.

> have to bother us to find it odd that a book would be released
> under a free license but in a proprietary format.  

These are orthogonal.  Are you personally running LinuxBIOS along
with a (presumably) free OS, or vendor-provided one?

Fanatism is dangerous in every corner of life... and life's
complicated, there are very few simple and right answers usually.

As to the possible practical reasons for this, Alan McKinnon
already described one of them (except that it's hard to estimate
others' stupidity having more than a chance to experience one's
own).

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