Fedora Weekly News Issue 89

Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 89[1] for the week of May 20th through May 26th, 2007. The latest issue can always be found here[2] and RSS Feed can be found here[3].

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Fedora Weekly News Issue 88

Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 88[1] for the week of May 13th through May 19th, 2007. The latest issue can always be found here[2] and RSS Feed can be found here[3].

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'Play Ogg': FSF launches free audio format campaign

BOSTON, Massachusetts, USA—Wednesday, May 16, 2007—The Free Software Foundation (FSF) today launched PlayOgg.org, a campaign to encourage use of the patent- and license-free standard Ogg Vorbis as an ethically, legally and technically superior audio alternative to the proprietary MP3 format.



Though the MP3 format has become very common, any time a distributor sells or gives away music encoded as an MP3, they are responsible for paying a fee to the owners of the MP3 patents. These patents are also an issue for developers writing software to work with MP3s. In contrast, the specification for Ogg Vorbis is in the public domain, so anyone can use the format or write software to use it without being dependent on a patent holder for permission.

Full news available from http://www.fsf.org/news/playogg.html

UPDATE: So where do you download music in Ogg Vorbis format?
I recommend http://www.jamendo.com/.

Fedora Weekly News Issue 87

Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 87[1] for the week of May 6th through May 12th, 2007. The latest issue can always be found here[2] and RSS Feed can be found here[3].

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Fedora Weekly News Issue 86

Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 86[1] for the week of April 29th through May 5th, 2007. The latest issue can always be found here[2] and RSS Feed can be found here[3].

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