On Thu, 2 Mar 2006 18:01:55 -0500 Arc Riley wrote: > On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 10:45:12PM +0000, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote: [...] > > That said, VP3/Theora can hardly compare with H.264 in terms of > > coding efficiency. There really is no viable alternative in some > > situations. Microsoft's WMV9/VC1 comes close but I'm sure it has > > every bit as non-free licensing terms. > > This argument has nothing to do with the freeness of it, or it's > compliance to the DFSG, but instead seems to be arguing that it's > patent status should be ignored because it's superiority over free > codecs makes it OK to ignore the ethical concerns over it. > > This is the same argument used to promote the nvidia binary drivers. > Something being useful is not a valid argument to ignore it's > proprietary nature. This is what non-free exists for.
100 % agreement.
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