Benjamin Scott wrote:
> A better analogy: Ogg may take over the 'net in the same way Napster did.
> Free beer, I mean free music, is a powerful force. :-)
Yes, that is one application of it, but I don't want to emphisize it,
lest we may offend the RIAA ;-). However, the application that I was
trying to highlight was the fact that the sound streaming capabilities
are already there, and the video capabilities are on their way.
Coupled with an XML-based image server, and voila, you have a
slideshow server. Why pay for a Windows Media server or a Real Server,
plus production tools, etc. when you can just set up you Apache server
and OggSquish (the name of the combined project) to do it for free.
> > P.S. What other formats/functions need an open source counterpart to
> > become a standard?
>
> Macromedia Shockwave/Flash and Adobe PDF come to mind.
Personally, I never understood PDF. What is so wrong with HTML and
embeded images? I have yet to see any real need for PDF's. There is no
real benefit to it. As for shockwave/flash, that is a strange case.
There are several animation formats out there, but flash seems to be
the only one to catch on.
> DVDs. :-)
Let's not go there ;-)
> The whole "all the world runs Microsoft Office" perception is a problem, but
> that is a different sort of problem. There already are open format
> alternatives; it is just getting people to use them is hard.
Two words: PLAIN TEXT!!!!
C-Ya,
Kenny
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