Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 19:35:34 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: jesse@mail.CS.Uni-Magdeburg.De (Roland Jesse) Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Napster client that is capable of handling vorbis (ogg) files Message-ID: <200010121935.MAA03546@usr09.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <0vzokadx4w.fsf@cs.uni-magdeburg.de> from "Roland Jesse" at Oct 12, 2000 03:09:19 PM
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> > Try GNUtella; it can do files without needing to look at their > > extension to tell what type they are. > > Series: "Articles, we don't want to see." Today: > > <http://music.zdnet.com/features/highnote/092100_gnutella_dead.html>; So it has bad architecture; most free software does. If it didn't, it would have cost a lot to develop, the people who did the work would be looking to recoup their costs, and it wouldn't be free software. The question I was answering had to do with distribution of arbitrary file formats (in this case, one using a codec that is so unknown to most people, that it wouldn't make sense to try to support it, unless there started a Windows version, and someone put up a recoding gateway to turn things that were encoded using it back into MP3s). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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