[Xiph-Advocacy] Re: [Speex-dev] Microsoft RTAudio
Maik Merten
maikmerten at gmx.net
Wed Sep 5 11:20:59 PDT 2007
Aaron Whitehouse schrieb:
>>> The little dirty secret that nobody dares talk about is that
>>> the open source religion was born out of anti-Microsoft,
>>> anti-Capitalist attitudes ... let's simply acknowledge the truth.
>
>> I will point out Microsoft has/does ship several of our codecs, [...]
>
> Just to batter the other side of that point, our codecs are installed
> in games because it makes economic sense, not through some socialist
> ideology.
And of course a BSD-style license for all codecs was chosen exactly for
the reason to enable commercial applications to use xiph.org codecs
without any headaches IIRC.
Maik Merten
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