I have to disagree to a certain point. I agree with your view on MP3, OGG, and FLAC, I use all 3, and prefer FLAC if the file I am playing with (non musical stuff) has never been touched by lossy compression. But I disagree because more people have software/hardware that supports MP3 than any other format (hell, maybe even CDDA hardware included). So unless you are making music for the sole purpose of listening to it yourself in whatever format you think is God's gift to the internet, then you want other people to hear it, and with that you want to make it easy/painless for them to be able to listen to it. Now I'm the kind of person where if I download an AVI in a codec I don't have, but hear it's a better format, then I will scamper to google to find it, but that's because I work with animation and stuff. Regular people don't know as much about OGG/FLAC/APE and so on, and they may not even care. Maybe you don't want to appeal to those people anyway, maybe you do, I don't know. But speaking from what I want, I want more people to hear my music no matter what kind of person they are. I want to bring a shred of joy to people's lives, no matter who they are. I don't believe in software patents, or even agree with many liscences (I think everything should be free, including doing whatever you want with it), but I won't get into them as I don't know a whole lot about them.
That's my 20Yen. Before I go, a good counter-point against my argument would be that forcing people to use other formats would promote those formats, maybe even to the point of surpasing MP3 in popularity, if that's even possible.
So unless Chip has a good reason not to, feel free to discuss any opinions you might have about my thoughts...