[vorbis-dev] Porting Vorbis lib on Ti DSP ? How to ?

[Monty]

On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 02:53:33PM -0700, Dan Conti wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-vorbis-dev at xiph.org [mailto:owner-vorbis-dev at xiph.org]On
> > Behalf Of Monty
> > Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2002 2:17 PM
> > To: vorbis-dev at xiph.org
> > Subject: Re: [vorbis-dev] Porting Vorbis lib on Ti DSP ? How to ?
> > 
> > [snip]
> > I'll be frank; Fullplay opened up this code because it's not useful
> > and they can't fix it.
> 
> Come now monty.
> 
> We have the resources to work on it here, but what we've found is that
> there isn't a lot of commercial interest in vorbis; at least, people are
> not interested in paying money for it. As a freebie, sure, people will
> throw it in. So the motive was to detach ourselves from it; we put it on
> a web site, i let people know about it, and occaisonally if people have
> questions i do my best to give them a hand. But in general it makes no
> sense for us to keep code that we can't sell boxed up; the future of
> vorbis as a codec relies on free distribution, otherwise it will have
> difficulty with market penetration.

It's fair of course for you to rebut my statement, but my belief here
basically stands.  I'm not going to elaborate on- or off-list.  As for
the purely technical state of the code, I also stand by that
assessment.

> > kit for. Contact our CEO Emmett Plant for information for now, but a
> > press release should be out in the next few days. 
> 
> Keyword: sell.
> 
> In all honesty, best of luck with this monty; hopefully the market is
> more open to paying for your integerized decoder than they were in
> paying for ours.

The market already has been.  You'll see our terms very soon; last
night, Emmett said 'Wednesday', so I think that press release will be
out tomorrow.

Monty

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