[FFmpeg-soc] AAC Encoding - Where we stand, what's left

[Kostya]

On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 10:03:10PM +0200, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 09:05:41PM +0200, Diego Biurrun wrote:
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> > > Libfaac has two incompatible licenses.
> > 
> > Yes, that's why it is crap and needs to be replaced.  The 3GPP AAC
> > encoder has just one license: prohibitively nonfree.  There is really
> > nothing more to say about it...
> 
> i agree, anyway, the idea that free software starts out of propriatary
> code in which one function after the other is rewritten to make it "free"
> really isnt all that impresive. If i may make some analogy, it feels like
> 
> someone building a car by taking one of a competitor and replacing one part
> after the other by his own vs. an engeneer designing a car from scratch
> optimizing each part as well as the overal design and testing prototypes
> to make sure its all perfect.
> 
> Another thing this reminds me are the leica cameras, they where also copied
> by pretty much everyone from europe over russia to japan, still, tell me
> a single one of them who managed to build an equal let alone better camera
> that way?

I happen to live in a city where USSR Leika clones (aka FED) were
produced. The funny situation here is that copying usually produced
better results than design from scratch.

But here's a counterexample - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R-2_rocket
 
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