I think JerryW and wfaulk pointed out exactly why YOU should care about ogg Vorbis.

empeg is open souce
mp3 is patented (lame is open souce but illegal)
ogg vorbis is open source

All other great benefits they mentioned are also great, but the above should be the number one reason why you should care.


"I guess I just can't see how someone would say "no" to this poll unless they were thinking of it as a distraction from development of another feature. Who *wouldn't* want it to support another format if it was a freebie?"

yn0t_: why don't you ask the 16 people who voted against it?