[openstandaarden] windows media audio =/= standaard

[Wim Stubbe]

Goeie zaak, zo krijgt de modale burger meer duidelijkheid over wat wel en geen 
standaarden zijn.



> Mark--
>
> Thanks for your comments. The phrase you referred to has been changed.
>
> Thanks for reading News.com.
>
> Julie Laing
> associate editor, media
> CNET News.com
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Van den Borre [mailto:mark at markvdb.be]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 03, 2002 12:07 AM
> To: tips at news.com
> Subject: comment on mp3 gameboy article (article
> http://news.com.com/2100-1023-941105.html?tag=fd_top)
>
>
> Hello,
>
> I would like to point you to what looks like a minor inaccuracy in an
> article on your website.
>
> A quote from the article "Start-up spins MP3s for GameBoy"
> (http://news.com.com/2100-1023-941105.html?tag=fd_top):
>
> "[...]Besides playing songs in the *** STANDARD *** MP3 and Windows Media
> Audio formats, the SongPro device will also play a proprietary SongPro
> Audio, or SPA, format [...]"
>
> Please not that Windows Media Audio format is not a standard audio format.
> It is a proprietary audio format that is designed only to be played by the
> Microsoft Windows Media Player application, thus strengthening the
> Microsoft stranglehold on desktop computing.
>
> I, together with may others supporting Open Standard for digital
> communication, would be grateful if your website would stop referring to
> the Windows Media Audio format as if it were an established standard,
> which, again, it is not. I am sure this would help prevent even greater
> general public confusion on standards for digital communication.
>
> Sincelerly,
>
> Mark Van den Borre
> musician, Belgium
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