On Fri, Mar 29, 2002 at 09:47:47AM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Thu, 28 Mar 2002, Lo'oRiS il Kabukimono wrote: > > > > i mean: since there is mpg321 - that is free - why do you need > > > > mpg123 ? > > > Since there is BSD, that is free, why do you need linux? > > because they are completely different. moreover, using debian > > terminology, they are *both* "free". instead mpg321 and mpg123 are very > > similar, with the difference that the first is free, the second isn't. a > > non-free package is useless if there is a free package that does the > > same thing. if a non-free package wants to be widespread, it must offer > > something that no free package offers. > mpg123 does offer some things that mpg321 does not. mpg321 is a free > rewrite of mpg123, but as of yet, it's not complete. The one thing mpg321 offers me right now that mpg123 didn't is occasional segfaults. <shrug> Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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