Hi, Jeff
Jeff wrote:
On May 1, 2010, at 2:49 PM, ineiev <[email protected]> wrote:
The code? that is, the specification of the format?
or the source code of an implementation?
Well, the specification of the format. I'm sure there is a little work
involved in making a player support another format.
Typically, yes; there might be corner cases like OOXML: as
I understand, free software developers wouldn't support it
because the format is unreasonably complicated
to independently implement (though it fits very well
to it's designer code base) -- but most likely
there is no similar multimedia format.
Isn't Winamp a proprietary program? the campaign is about
advertising VLC rather than Winamp.
Yes, winamp is proprietary.
...
True true. In this case, if it using a proprietary application to
listen to ogg, so that ogg can be more mainstream, it's a compromise I
would support at least short term.
So, we may recommend adding "send your (proprietary) player
developers a request to support Ogg formats better"
to the action list at http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/playogg/en (?)
Regards,
Ineiev
