* andy at theasis.com <andy at theasis.com> [010410 08:40]: > What kind of "even if they are free"? If I whip up a little midi recording > and make it available to mp3, do they pay some fee? Ok, if its just you, its ok, but if a company is making money it boils down to 1% of revenue, minimum of 1 cent per download. Minimum agreement being 15,000 dollars. (yikes!) That's why (i think) eMusic has no problem helping out vorbis with some free tracks. http://mp3licensing.com/royalty/summary.html http://www.mp3.com/news/095.html As to the Freedom vs free rant. In this case I am defaulting to the 'free' part. So, stop assuming that I'm hiding behind Freedom. Be high and mighty somewhere else. I don't think these people are uneducated hackers. The lead programmer at least has some graduate school, and perhaps finished that, I cant seem to find out easily for now. Heres a nifty interview: http://www.advogato.org/article/56.html -- Scott Dier <dieman at ringworld.org> <sdier at debian.org> http://www.ringworld.org/ #linuxos at irc.openprojects.net So little time, so little to do. -- Oscar Levant -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 232 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20010410/a46e3e34/attachment.pgp