[vorbis] OpenML, Khronos, and dmSDK

[Michael Smith]

>I've visited those sites - looks like this consortium is created to deal
>with interoperability problems that we have today because of many
>proprietary closed-source formats, and also they want to support
>more operating systems.
>But I don't see the word 'free' anywhere.

If you look more closely, there are two main parts to the standard. One is
OpenGL - and there's an excellent open source implementation of that in
mesa. The other is implemented by SGI's open source dmSDK. So, it's
certainly free.

>Well according to http://www.khronos.org/NABrelease.htm they have
>announced their coalition just few days ago (Apr 11, 2001) at NAB
>convention.

Apr 11, 2000. Read it again.

Michael

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