On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 10:03:19AM -0500, Phil Mendelsohn wrote: > >The thing I'm curious about is, can Open Source development compete >against the *HEAVILY* funded corporate deep wizardry? We're not talking >about a couple of guys somewhere. The 40 year old papers he was looking >at and the 80 years of history is funded, published, and owned largely by >AT&T Research. Of course they can! Look at linux and *BSD's competing nose-to-nose with the big corporate fleets of hackers. And holding thier own too I might add. Granted this isn't an apples to apples comparison but it's a good example of what the masses of "hobbyists" can accomplish. No matter what you wanna do, there is a hacker out there who cares not about getting paid but will do it for the challenge or for fun. > >I'd like to see Vorbis do it (open things up) -- jj's not allowed to tell >even his friends some of the details of how he does what he does, and I'd >like to know more about their perceptual model. *That's* the deep >wizardry that I think this is going to come down to, and I don't think >Vorbis has the resources to improve upon it. Worse yet, that's not the >best AT&T has. The AAC coder is quite a bit better, and even more CPU >efficient in encoding. No matter how smart you are, and no matter how great your idea is; someone smarter will come up with a better one. Can ya dig it? Can I get an amen brother!!! -- Ben Lutgens cell: 612.670.4789 Sistina Software Inc. work: 612.379.3951 Code Monkey Support (A.K.A. System Administrator) $chown -R us.us yourbase -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 232 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20010410/84a71e2a/attachment.pgp