Now that Sun has, for the second time, (re)anonounced with all the big noise and confetti how they are to interoperate with Microsoft, is there any chance that we will finally see Windows Media Player / Microsoft (or whatever they are called, I don't care) codecs in Solaris?
As far as I remember, Microsoft and Sun concluded an agreement whereby both companies were entitled to freely use the technologies and patents of another. Which, simply put, means: Sun has free/gratis access to all the Microsoft codec specifications, as well as NTFS specs! In fact, Sun, under this agreement has access to all and any Microsoft technology, and is free to implement that technology in Solaris in any way Sun pleases! So what does everyone else think? Do we want those codecs in (Open)Solaris, while there are six years still left on the agreement, or not? And throw in NTFS R/W support while we're at it, Sun has legal access and the means to get all the specs! This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
