More Sun news: Sun promises to open-source Java

Lee Revell rlrevell at joe-job.com
Fri May 19 16:46:54 BST 2006


On Fri, 2006-05-19 at 14:58 +0100, David Hart wrote:
> On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 11:34:21PM +1000, Alexander Jacob Tsykin wrote:
> > On Friday 19 May 2006 20:21, Scott wrote:
> > > Flash is in the works, I don't expect we'll ever see MP3 open-sourced.
> > > Besides, we have OGG. :-)
> > not nearly as good, it doesn't work on an ipod
> 
> That's not a problem with ogg, it's a problem with the ipod.

Users don't care, they just need it to work.

And, MP3 is already open source.  It will be free software in ~5 years
when the patents expire.

Lee




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