The biggest impediment to FLAC is the fact that player manufacturers do not usually include support for it in their devices. I recently had to buy an "MP3" player, and the reasons for choosing a cheap chinese device over an iPod or equivalent were: a) 5x cheaper; b) the cheap chinese ipod ripoff supports many other formats, including FLAC. Most people have other priorities, though...

Whoever said this didn't have a very good sense of distance :)

To those who might think otherwise, I'm not complaining about the presence of ads, but about an anedoctal situation, created by the fact that Slashdot's ads are clearly not targeted to the audience in question, or... they're rather targeted to disagree with the latter. It's a case of destructive advertising: instead of advertising products that might interest to Linux users, they're advertising products that are themselves an alternative to Linux, in a not very ethical way (at least that's my point of view). Cheers, Pedro