[MPlayer-dev-eng] matroska container sold to IBM

[Jindrich Makovicka]

D Richard Felker III wrote:

>On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 09:59:35PM +0200, Christian HJ Wiesner wrote:
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            ^^^^^^^

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>>Hi all,
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>>Best regards from Hawaii
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>Christian, I've thought you were a total asshole in the past, but
>selling out like this is the last straw. I don't see how you can claim
>it's beneficial to us for IBM to make Matroska proprietary, except
>perhaps that it will keep people from using the horrible format... :)
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>I have no more interest in seeing oene behemoth dominate the market
>with a proprietary codec (IBM with WARP) than another (MS with WMV).
>In fact, I prefer WMV because it's already been reverse engineered,
>whereas getting support for this new IBM mess in free software is
>going to be another setback to us.
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>Now, please take your proprietary crap off this list, and we'll get
>back to implementing formats that are superior technically and
>freedom-wise. Good riddance to you.
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Is this supposed to be a serious reply or not? Isn't the previous post 
supposed to be an April fools' joke?

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Jindrich Makovicka