[nzlug] favourite distro

[yuri]

On 08/01/2008, Simon Bridge wrote:
>
> On Tue, 2008-01-08 at 15:53 +1300, Vik Olliver wrote:
>
> > Not giving people what they're after in the Open Source world is an
> > exercise in futility. You will be bypassed.
> >
> Exactly - so it is not a question of not letting people do this, it is a
> question of *how* we approach it. If users want proprietary stuff
> because they think that music=mp3, that's ignorant and destructive. Lets
> give the user a *chance* to decide to learn.

CD ripping software on PCLinuxOS defaults to ogg.
This bothered my brother because he wanted to move stuff to his son's
MP3 player.
Before changing his ripping default, I copied an ogg file to the
player and tried to play it.
It played! (Dick Smith branded 1GB or 2GB player slightly bigger than
a thumb drive - docs only said it played MP3 and wma).

Other encoding software also defaults to open codecs.
I like this approach - create open but play both open and proprietary.

Yuri