1. I really HATE POLITICS. 2. I think Speex is a great solution to the problem of compressing human speech. 3. Good heavens people can we please stop throwing around words like communist and socialism. 4. Government funded research has done a lot for the US and other countries. Going all the way back to the NACA cowling and airfoils that where vital in the development of airliners and the fighters and bombers that won World War II to the weather satellites and NOAA today. I have no problem with Australia using the public research that my tax dollars in the US produces so it only seems fair that I get to use Speex :) As too how good Speex is? Well Microsoft used it in XBox live for years. So can we really end all this junk and all of us get back to writing code? PS if you don't like Speex then don't use it is the way I look at it.
Hello LWATCDR: OK with me, but 1) I'm a Microsoft stockholder and 2) I'm not going to stand still for people trashing Capitalist successes!! 'Nuff said. At 03:34 PM 9/4/2007 -0400, LWATCDR wrote:>1. I really HATE POLITICS. >2. I think Speex is a great solution to the problem of compressing >human speech. >3. Good heavens people can we please stop throwing around words like >communist and socialism. >4. Government funded research has done a lot for the US and other >countries. Going all the way back to the NACA cowling and airfoils >that where vital in the development of airliners and the fighters and >bombers that won World War II to the weather satellites and NOAA >today. I have no problem with Australia using the public research that >my tax dollars in the US produces so it only seems fair that I get to >use Speex :) > >As too how good Speex is? Well Microsoft used it in XBox live for years. >So can we really end all this junk and all of us get back to writing code? >PS if you don't like Speex then don't use it is the way I look at it. >_______________________________________________ >Speex-dev mailing list >Speex-dev@xiph.org >http://lists.xiph.org/mailman/listinfo/speex-dev--- B. Mitchell Loebel, Executive Director 408 425-9920 The Tech Startup Connection (formerly The PARALLEL Processing Connection)
B. Mitchell Loebel wrote:> Hello LWATCDR: > > OK with me, but 1) I'm a Microsoft stockholder and 2) I'm not going to > stand still for people trashing Capitalist successes!! 'Nuff said.If you change "capitalist" to "mixed economy" I would agree. We could have a very long political discussion on this list, but this list is for technical matters. Feel free to start yet another politics discussion list if you'd like. :) Peter -- Peter Saint-Andre https://stpeter.im/ -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/x-pkcs7-signature Size: 7338 bytes Desc: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature Url : http://lists.xiph.org/pipermail/speex-dev/attachments/20070904/8cca3949/smime.bin
B. Mitchell Loebel wrote:> Hello LWATCDR: > > OK with me, but 1) I'm a Microsoft stockholder and 2) I'm not going to > stand still for people trashing Capitalist successes!! 'Nuff said.How about if I sell you a copy of speex. Buy low, sell high seems like a good capitalist plan, and then you could feel good about using Speex! Ben -- Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com> Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com