Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
Le Ven 6 février 2009 01:30, Matthew Woehlke a écrit :Just out of curiosity, how do you solve the chicken-and-egg problem here? Namely, users already have media in closed formats (or, as in my case, are stuck with devices that only grok closed formats).How do you solve the chicken-and-egg problem of users having windows software on their PCs? You don't, you offer a satisfying alternative.
I'm still waiting for my movie collection to be released in Theora, and my car to understand Vorbis. You're working on that, right?
While I understand (and to some extent, agree with) the principle of boycotting anything that would force you to deal with non-Free stuff, that's not very realistic in the grand scheme of things... especially if you're asking converts to throw out their existing media collections... their existing hardware... their brand-new $25k cars ;-).
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