Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 13th Jun 2006 21:58 UTC, submitted by Valour
"Not that long ago, a significant portion of desktop GNU/Linux enthusiasts were actively advocating GNU/Linux among Windows users. I even remember doing it myself at one point, though now I really don't care what you use on your computer as long as I don't have to use it too. I thought that sentiment was isolated to me, but lately I've seen an abrupt decline in GNU/Linux evangelism on online forums. Here are some possible reasons for this change in community thinking and behavior."
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2005-11-11
As I understand it, it isn't so much that Ogg Vorbis can't be integrated into WMP, but more like the fact that Microsoft refuses to do it.
Here is a perfectly open format, freely able to be implemeted by anyone, and a good format at that, yet when you try to open a .ogg file in WMP, by default the player simply gives a message that "the format is not supported". For most formats that are not included in WMP by default, WMP will download a codec for you. Not so for Ogg Vorbis. The wording that you get almost seems to imply that WMP cannot handle )gg Vorbis media files at all. In fact it can (all it needs is a codec), it is just that Windows goes out of its way to try to give the impression that the format is not able to be played in WMP.