On Thu, 2004-01-22 at 18:29, Curt Sampson wrote: > The problem is, a good number of these patents are in the hands of > businesses whose business model and sole revenue source is to licence > these patents. That makes them extremely disinclined to back down on > them, and OSS projects (and a lot of commercial projects, for that > matter) don't have the financial resources to fight the legal battle > that would be needed to get the patent overturned.
Unfortunately, I'll have to concur with this point. Maybe just a range coder option for now, and later I'll throw together an arithmetic encoder thats NOT part of the "offical" flac. We can use it for a base line comparison, have it as a module or something. Btw, I found one project on sourceforge without even trying that uses arithmetic coding. Googling for source shows a ton of projects, open and closed source, across the net. ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn _______________________________________________ Flac-dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flac-dev
