Oliver Frommel wrote:
> How much is a license anyway?
Way too much for a Free Software developer like me. And how would
I recover the costs?
> Couldn't the companies
> making money off Linux get together and buy like
> a general Linux MP3 codec license?
Yes, they could but why would they?
Erik
-- +-----------------------------------------------------------+ Erik de Castro Lopo nospam@email-addr-hidden-nerd.com (Yes it's valid) +-----------------------------------------------------------+ "It's pretty simple. [Large companies are] allowed to own either a content creation empire - a studio or label - or a playback device empire (Walkmans, or PCs). But ... can't have both." -- Andrew OrlowskiReceived on Sat Jul 23 16:15:07 2005
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