QUOTE(Soap @ Feb 24 2008, 14:31) 
Kind of hard for interested third parties to do much with it as long as it remains closed source - with only Windows binaries in the wild.
Closed source and windows only doesn't matter. WMA anyone???
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Closed source and windows only doesn't matter. WMA anyone???
QUOTE(greynol @ Feb 24 2008, 17:34)
Closed source and windows only doesn't matter. WMA anyone???
If you don't see how Microsoft actively licensing WM codecs to hardware manufactures is different than this situation...
Not to mention Microsoft has WMA and WMV decoding libraries available for license for many embedded hardware architectures (m68k and ARM being the fist two which come to mind just by thinking about DAPs).
Microsoft also had released a WMA player for powerPC Mac OS/X.
Then there is the whole ffmpeg reverse-engineering of a large variety of WMA codecs.
So, no, WMA isn't Windows only.
Nor are all WMA decoders closed source.
To top it off - Microsoft actively courts hardware manufactures interested in using their codecs - going so far as to produce decoders for them.
Then I won't sign it.
Did you come just to argue?
Did you come just to argue?
QUOTE(greynol @ Feb 24 2008, 17:51)
Then I won't sign it.
Did you come just to argue?
Nope - just defending my original statement against attack.
Sorry to see you don't feel such a petition serves the greater community even if it doesn't serve you directly.
That's somewhat ironic since it was you who attacked my statement first.
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