2009/7/9 Kostya <[email protected]>: > On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 10:03:10PM +0200, Michael Niedermayer wrote: >> On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 09:05:41PM +0200, Diego Biurrun wrote: > [...] >> > > Libfaac has two incompatible licenses. >> > >> > Yes, that's why it is crap and needs to be replaced. The 3GPP AAC >> > encoder has just one license: prohibitively nonfree. There is really >> > nothing more to say about it... >> >> i agree, anyway, the idea that free software starts out of propriatary >> code in which one function after the other is rewritten to make it "free" >> really isnt all that impresive. If i may make some analogy, it feels like >> >> someone building a car by taking one of a competitor and replacing one part >> after the other by his own vs. an engeneer designing a car from scratch >> optimizing each part as well as the overal design and testing prototypes >> to make sure its all perfect. >> >> Another thing this reminds me are the leica cameras, they where also copied >> by pretty much everyone from europe over russia to japan, still, tell me >> a single one of them who managed to build an equal let alone better camera >> that way? > > I happen to live in a city where USSR Leika clones (aka FED) were > produced. The funny situation here is that copying usually produced > better results than design from scratch. > > But here's a counterexample - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R-2_rocket
And I read a lengthy article about Chinese reverse engineering of electronic products where they swapped out some parts for better performing parts to improve the product. I doubt this happens in all cases but I certainly don't think the two (using and improving something existing versus starting something from scratch to achieve a good implementation) are mutually exclusive. Regards, Rob _______________________________________________ FFmpeg-soc mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-soc
