Why is Fedora a multimedia disaster? - Here is why.

Ian Malone ibmalone at gmail.com
Wed Apr 18 09:47:18 UTC 2007


Valent Turkovic wrote:
>> I guess I am missing something here - why would you be trying to
>> explain file extensions to them in the first place? Would they be
>> reading the file extension, or looking at the file icon to tell them
>> what the file is?
> 
> Although I respect your opinion, I believe that it's just the other
> way around. Majority of people now what an .avi file is when they see
> it as an extension, also is true for .mp3
> 

mp3 sems to have become a such a common term that people use it
for any digital audio (cf. 'mp3 player').

-- 
imalone




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