Re: [playogg-discuss] playogg/faq: unclear phrase

[Ineiev]

Hi, Oleg!

On 5/4/10, Oleg Koptev <address@hidden> wrote:
> Isn't campaign sentence 'bout WMP, RP and and other popular players  too 
> strong?
> Especially in part 'companies ... restrict the users and spy on them'?

With proprietary software, it is extremely hard to tell
they don't spy on you. if you learn about the effects of their spying,
you can tell they do; when you are unaware of such effects, you can't
tell they don't.

It is, indeed, probably too strong to say "the companies that control
the software design it to restrict the users and spy on them"; this may
imply all companies always do it, which is not proved.

Perhaps Matt will reword the passage once more.
(by the way, the current revision "RealPlayer, Windows Media Player,
iTunes, and other popular players require people
to use non-free software" sounds like a tautology).

> but I'm quite sure there are many free (and non-open-source in the same time)

The recommended expressions are 'gratis' or 'zero price'.

> audioplayers that are not spy on the users.

Can you explain why are you sure?

> What means in general word 'spy' in that context?

I believe it means they (at least) "report what each
user watches or listens to".

> Also paragraph named 'Nothing to lose!' have too strong declaration. 'You
> don't lose any technical quality with Ogg Vorbis'. If I want to save all
> quality and compress audio in the same time then I'll go for FLAC. OGG Vorbis
> non lossless as well-known here at list, so it is destructive by it's nature.
> Please note - I'm not compare mp3 and ogg here.

But the paragraph does compare MP3 and Ogg Vorbis.

Thanks,
Ineiev