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Re: Bug#158683: ITP: oggasm -- MP3 to Ogg converter



On Sat, Aug 31, 2002 at 12:15:48AM -0400, Joe Drew wrote:
> On Fri, 2002-08-30 at 14:36, Branden Robinson wrote:
> > I think it would be fair to tar mpg321 with the brush of "non-free" when
>                      ^un?

Yes.

> > that clearly wasn't your intent when you wrote it.  Having a giant
> > corporation smash your First Amendmendment[1] right to express yourself
>                                     ^^^^
> I, personally, am glad you exercised your first amendment right to write
> that word.

Hm.

> I have to admit that I'm considering just dropping development of mpg321
> altogether, particularly if it's our judgement that we can't ship it. I
> can't say that I'd be overly sad in that case - the only mp3s I acquire
> these days are illegal ones my friends send me, as I encode all my CDs
> to Ogg now - but it's still a sign that we are just so utterly
> unimportant in a society ruled by the megacorps.

I have to agree.  :(

> > [1] Okay, so you're Canadian, UDHR or whatever.  I'm perfectly happy to
>                                 ^^^^ ??

Universal Declaration of Human Rights.  A document ratified by the U.N.,
I believe, which of course means nothing in Amerika.

Sorry for all the typos.  I guess I got excited and had an oggasm, which
interfered with my typing.

-- 
G. Branden Robinson                |    You can have my PGP passphrase when
Debian GNU/Linux                   |    you pry it from my cold, dead
branden@debian.org                 |    brain.
http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |    -- Adam Thornton

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