Nat Friedman on the Future of Collaboration 134
sp3298622 writes "Nat Friedman, co-founder of Ximian, expresses his excitement about the Hula collaboration Server, talks about the plugins in development for Evolution 2.2, the potential of XGL and the revolution of the Linux Desktop.
The
interview is a 30MB MP3 file."
No OGG? (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:No OGG? (Score:5, Insightful)
MP3 is the defacto standard for compressed audio and WMA has major support, so virtually no one uses Vorbis. After all - most windows and mac users wouldn't know what to do with an ogg file. But mp3 is patent-constricted, so fedora users can't listen to an mp3 without going outside the distribution for semi-legal support.
There's a collaboration problem.
Does anybody else hate these audio interviews? (Score:5, Insightful)
I mean they are horrible. I know this is the latest trend, podcasting and all, but it's freaking useless.
I don't care what Nate sounds like, I just want the content, and I want it in txt so I can index it, search against it, quote it easily etc..
Not only are these shows just incredibly badly done (wtf is the first 3 minutes of this thing?) but the format itself is just asinine. mp3's are great for music, they are not great for interviews.
For the love of god, at least give us a transcript!
-Nic
Re:No OGG? (Score:2, Insightful)
Yes, but whose problem is it? Refusing to use a superior and free product just because it doesn't have mass market is stupid and linux would still be no where if everyone thought like that. They should either use both formats, or tell windows and mac users instructions for playing OGG. Its a better sounding format anyway. Don't support mp3's and software patents just becuase its easy to do. Let people know that its not okay and make a difference. Real Player supports ogg (at least on linux it does, so I'd assume the windows version does too), most people have Real Player. It's people that conform into whatever is accepted at the time that stifle change.
Regards,
Steve
Enough with the audio interviews already! (Score:3, Insightful)
So... (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Enough with the audio interviews already! (Score:2, Insightful)