On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 07:21:59AM +0300, Kostya wrote: > 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.
I dont own a FED, but what ive heard is things like that they where manufactored to the precission of cement mixers ;) > > But here's a counterexample - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R-2_rocket Indeed i didnt know that, though USSR own rocket designs surpassed copies and non copies. I mean thinking of soyuz for example ... [...] -- Michael GnuPG fingerprint: 9FF2128B147EF6730BADF133611EC787040B0FAB Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. -- Albert Einstein
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