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Originally posted by trancaholic Actually you can do both on linux.

yeah i know, i don't even have windows on my computer anymore

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Originally posted by Dervish Supose. But surely the EU will make sure it doesn't effect compition via formmats and compatablity. Anyway I have to sleep, but it's pretty interesting actually.

actually, i'm not sure. i know they have a lot of problems with that in the US. All US linux distrubations have stoped to ship it with support for .mp3, .avi (okay .doc still works for them...) etc. so nowadays they (US people, or people with a US dist like fedora) are downloading these "plugins" from european servers, and if this law go trough it may be an end to that and a big setback for the open source industry...

Wow never knew about that. See they way I'd see it is like what I'd call a specification. Like a bus specification. And to me a file format is a specification. You can't own a patent for that. But if you had a program which did something amazing with that file format then you could patent that.

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