On: Richard Stallman on the Ogg Vorbis license (2001)

[tjr]

I'm trying to understand what it is you find non-harmful about the MP3 patent that is harmful about other software patents.

You say the MP3 patent really did no harm; what harm did it not do? And of the harm that it did not do, what harm do other software patents do?

[cgh → tjr]

There are varying degrees of harm. The fact that equally effective free alternatives to mp3 never caught on makes this obvious. My point was that Stallman is not right 100% of the time, as the above poster asserted.