Why doesn’t Fedora Core 4 ship with FLAC support enabled in XMMS? I get the whole MP3 thing; I’m cool with that. All my ripped CDs are in Ogg Vorbis, because that’s the sort of left-wing tree-hugging pinko Free Software zealot I am. But FLAC, the Free Lossless Audio Codec, it’s pretty free.
FLAC is the only example I can think of where the shiny new free format completely decimated the entrenched non-free format. It clubbed SHN to within inches of its life and left it lying in a ditch. And it’s stood strong against Apple’s best efforts to strangle lossless audio with Digital Restrictions Management using ALE.
FLAC is a winner. Let’s treat it as such.
Planet readers should now skip on to Christian’s excellent post on GPL and DRM. This paragraph isn’t for you. Hi Silke. I love you.
