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"MP3 license revenues generated about €100 million for the Fraunhofer Society in 2005."

Is that small amount of money ?

Compared to the value of the music/audio distributed through mp3? I'd say that's a pittance.

Buying a complete set of codecs from Fluendo for Linux costs 20$. That includes Windows Media, h264 and others. That's not too much I think.