NewsForge: Music Store Bangs the Drum for Free Software

“Online music site Independent Music Online promotes various
free, libre open source software (FLOSS) projects on banner
graphics throughout its site, including Mozilla Thunderbird,
OpenOffice.org, and jlGui. And not only does this music service
‘walk the walk,’ it also ‘talks the talk’: Independent Music Online
itself is thoroughly powered by FLOSS. The Ind-Music.com servers
run Mandriva, Apache, and PHP, and all of its music is in the
popular, free (and digital rights management-free) Ogg Vorbis audio
format.

“Ind-Music.com owner and CEO Patrick Hefner said his company
chose Ogg Vorbis for many reasons: first, because DRM is an unfair
limitation on digital music; second, because Ogg Vorbis provides
for a better compression ratio and sound quality than similar
formats…”

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