china buying software

[David Gerard]

On 21 January 2011 20:51, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 21:50, Michael Haney <thezorch at gmail.com> wrote:

>> Most device makers that use Linux have a license from Fraunhaufer for
>> the MP3 codecs.  IMHO since MP3s are so prevalent these days the codec
>> should be open-sourced or at least made royalty free.


Open source: http://www.ffmpeg.org http://lame.sourceforge.net


> IMHO since Windows is so prevalent these days the OS should be
> open-sourced or at least made royalty free.

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Open source and royalty free: http://www.winehq.org/


- d.