On 03.04.2007 14:13, Kaiwai Gardiner wrote:
> On 03/04/07, *Dirk Wetter* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
>
> Matt,
>
> On 31.03.2007 07:22, Kaiwai Gardiner wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Just having a look around; along with hardware support, I thought it
> > would be best to help provide a 'link database' to link up customer
> > needs to solutions that exist for Solaris.
> >
> > Case in point, https://shop.fluendo.com/
> <https://shop.fluendo.com/> who sell currently support for
> > WMA/WMV/Mp3 playback for Solaris x86/SPARC - and from what I
> understand,
> > the compresssion side of the equation will be arriving soon.
> >
> > Not only will this help first time users in regars to helping them
> > resolve support issues relating to multimedia, it'll also provide
> a good
> > platform in which Solaris solution provides can directly contact
> > customers and vice versa, without needing to navigate the
> beaucracy that
> > is Sun - if this provides free publicitly, hopefully it'll entice more
> > vendors to come on board and provide Solaris editions of their
> software.
> >
> > What does everyone else thing?
>
> Looks to me like a commercial license, this is not the idea of Open
> Source
> Software (OSS)!
>
> For the "end customer Solaris" choosing a proprietary add on is a
> political
> issue Sun has to decide.
>
> You certainly will set up the free software community which would be
> happy
> having something they can use for their free version of OpenSolaris and
> which is free of rights like real OSS tools like xine, mplayer/mencoder,
> lame, ffmpeg, vlc, available and running under Solaris, Linux, BSD,
> OSX
> and partly even Windows.
>
>
> I haven't said that it should be bundled with the opensource version of
> OpenSolaris -
just thought this is an opensolaris mailing list.
> the issue is pairing up what people want in terms of
> compatibility to what the market is providing in terms of products - in
> this case, WMA/WMV which is available on Solaris x86 (and in the future,
> will be available with encoding support too).
I am not a multimedia guru but I just do not see the point for encoding to
WMA/WMV and friends. Neither from a technical perspective or from a usage
perspective: how many people using Solaris in the world would make use of
this?
Besides: If a company says "Will be available/planned" you're sometimes
better off to consult a crystal ball.
> It isn't a 'all the opensource way or the highway' - with that sort of
> attitude,
I am definitely not a black-and-white-only-painter. You didn't the bring
the point across of a benefit of using those tools as opposed to the free
tools already existing. Or the implications/difficulties why bundling some
of the free tools might cause problems, too.
> that is what has stuffed Linux up; their dogmatic,
> zealoted approach to OpenSource - you either go to the extreme of one
> direction (FSF and Stallmans views) or you go in the opposit direction
> (Microsoft)
Sorry, I don't open the can of worms and start political discussions.
Cheers,
Dirk
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IT-Security + Open Source http://drwetter.org
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