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...have some ideas about how to do it fairly cleanly, though I haven't read the ices2 code in any detail. But, whether this happens depends not just on the code getting written, but on whether other Xiph developers are willing to lend any more aid and shelter to the proprietary MP3 format and its litigious owners. My personal perspective may tend more toward the practical and the short term than theirs, but I can certainly understand if they don't want to include MP3 support in any new code. If I didn't have other people depending on an ices with MP3 support, I might feel the same way myself....

...have some ideas about how to do it fairly cleanly, though I haven't read the ices2 code in any detail. But, whether this happens depends not just on the code getting written, but on whether other Xiph developers are willing to lend any more aid and shelter to the proprietary MP3 format and its litigious owners. My personal perspective may tend more toward the practical and the short term than theirs, but I can certainly understand if they don't want to include MP3 support in any new code. If I didn't have other people depending on an ices with MP3 support, I might feel the same way myself....

...might have to ask for an exemption on that timestamp -- the first bits of the survival package only reach back to 1986. And I've had to change source code systems multiple times which plays hob with the file times, though I did try to preserve the changelog history to forstall some future litigious soul who claims they wrote it first (sccs -> rcs -> cvs -> svn -> mercurial). :-) Terry T [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

...agreements between On2 and Xiph besides the above documents? Note: I expect that in practice, On2 isn't looking to stop independent implementations, and perhaps didn't intend the limitation on the patent disclaimer at all. However, companies have been known to suddenly become more litigious (for example if they get axquired), and in such a case I would expect a literal reading of the patent license and the promise not to assert. It also seems important for the patent status to be really clear for purposes of the W3C Patent Policy, if Theora were to be required by HTML5 or othe...

...d only WD Black and WD RedPro drives for > RAID, and not had any issues. Green drives are scary :-) > > Chuck Licensing, IMO. Redistributing ZoL is likely fraught with a bit of legal peril, or at best, technical peril if you want to try and skirt the legal edges. Oracle is notoriously litigious and having a target liked Red Hat would probably have their lawyers whetting their chops. Ironically, btrfs was also an Oracle thing -- in that Chris Mason worked for them (believe he's now at Google?). Do agree that ZFS feels like what btrfs is trying to become. I use ZoL on some production...

...w to do it fairly > cleanly, though I haven't read the ices2 code in any detail. > > But, whether this happens depends not just on the code getting > written, but on whether other Xiph developers are willing to lend any > more aid and shelter to the proprietary MP3 format and its litigious > owners. My personal perspective may tend more toward the practical and > the short term than theirs, but I can certainly understand if they > don't want to include MP3 support in any new code. If I didn't have > other people depending on an ices with MP3 support, I might feel...

I have a question that has been puzzling me for some time ... what is the reason RedHat chose to go with btrfs rather than working with the ZFS-on-Linux folks (now OpenZFS)? Is it a licensing issue, political, etc? Although btrfs is making progress, ZFS is far more mature, has a few more stable features (especially Raid-z3) and has worked flawlessly for me on CentOS-6 and Scientific Linux-6.

...to do it fairly > cleanly, though I haven't read the ices2 code in any detail. > > But, whether this happens depends not just on the code getting > written, but on whether other Xiph developers are willing to lend any > more aid and shelter to the proprietary MP3 format and its litigious > owners. My personal perspective may tend more toward the practical and > the short term than theirs, but I can certainly understand if they > don't want to include MP3 support in any new code. If I didn't have > other people depending on an ices with MP3 support, I might feel...

At time to time I receive some junk faxes from some advertising companies that play smart and don't provide any TSI number so I can not bock them by the number in Hylafax. Despite calling their Fax Removal Service 1-800-... number several time they refuse to obey my request. So I would like to setup a small script or context loop in extension.conf if possible and maybe run it overnight; maybe

...s about how to do it fairly > > cleanly, though I haven't read the ices2 code in any detail. > > > > But, whether this happens depends [...] on whether other Xiph developers > > are willing to lend any more aid and shelter to the proprietary MP3 > > format and its litigious owners. [...] > > Well okay, I can understand their attitude. But it seems more like a > religious thing: "no mp3 is evil, we don't do that". Why don't you try, for a moment, to look at it in a purely competitive way: why should xiph.org build support for their competi...

I had just about about sold a new asterisk phone system to a local company when they called back asking if I could match a proposal from Novergence.com. I haven't seen anything on paper but was told their proposal was to provide a new phone system that would replace the existing 8 line 12 extension system, provide an internet T-1, unlimited local and long distance, voice mail, and two

...nd supporting the first lawsuit about derivative works of software. They won a DMCA exemption to legally permit circumvention of encryption on Smart TVs, ensuring that we are free to hack on the devices we legally own. They work with companies who are out of compliance with the GPL to find non-litigious resolutions to encourage them to join the free and open source software communities as contributors. They do all of this work with 3 full time employees. But it's not always popular work--and because their positions are not always aligned with the business practices of large companies, th...

It has just come to my notice that Redhat is planning to ship a forked version of OpenSSH. The change goes beyond the usual patches applied to RPMs in the build process: Redhat have built their own OpenSSH tarball and are using that in their source RPM instead of the official release distribution. If you are interested, have a look at the openssh-3.9p1-7.src.rpm from the Fedora development/

Dear Professor Revelle and R-helpers, This is a two-part question: the first part is general, and the second is specific to the psych package. First question: In the past I've constructed composite variables from questionnaire data by using rowMeans(), and then correlating items with the scale using cor() as an informal check for "bad" items. Over the weekend I decided to take a

I've just released ices 0.3: http://icecast.org/files/ices/ices-0.3.tar.gz ices 0.3 is an encoder for icecast-compatible servers (including icecast 2, icecast 1 and shoutcast). It requires libshout 2.0. ices 0.3 outputs MP3, not Vorbis. For Vorbis you will need ices 2. We know this is confusing, so ices 0.x will probably have a new name for the next release. Ideas? Changes since ices

...y. Can anyone spell 'Precious'? Microsoft often leaks like the proverbial and I'm talking about real insider info rather than the pre-arranged 'leaks' from the PR department to the easily impressed or gullible. Say what you like about Microsoft - and who doesn't - but the litigious company hasn't to my knowledge ever taken similar action, which shows considerable good sense and restraint. Microsoft exec's deserve some credit for that and, for once, could teach a lesson to Apple about accepting the inevitable and public relations. _______ OFFICE 2003 TIMESAVING TECH...