From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Oct 12 12:35:45 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from smtp05.primenet.com (smtp05.primenet.com [206.165.6.135]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DDB637B66C for ; Thu, 12 Oct 2000 12:35:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp05.primenet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id MAA00095; Thu, 12 Oct 2000 12:36:06 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr09.primenet.com(206.165.6.209) via SMTP by smtp05.primenet.com, id smtpdAAAciaGea; Thu Oct 12 12:36:00 2000 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr09.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA03546; Thu, 12 Oct 2000 12:35:35 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <200010121935.MAA03546@usr09.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Napster client that is capable of handling vorbis (ogg) files To: jesse@mail.CS.Uni-Magdeburg.De (Roland Jesse) Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 19:35:34 +0000 (GMT) Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <0vzokadx4w.fsf@cs.uni-magdeburg.de> from "Roland Jesse" at Oct 12, 2000 03:09:19 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > 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: > > 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