[MPlayer-dev-eng] matroska container sold to IBM

[D Richard Felker III]

On Sat, Apr 05, 2003 at 08:25:55PM +0200, gabor wrote:
> On Sat, 2003-04-05 at 20:10, D Richard Felker III wrote:
> 
> > > Best regards from Hawaii
> > 
> > Christian, I've thought you were a total asshole in the past, but
> > selling out like this is the last straw. I don't see how you can claim
> > it's beneficial to us for IBM to make Matroska proprietary, except
> > perhaps that it will keep people from using the horrible format... :)
> > 
> > I have no more interest in seeing oene behemoth dominate the market
> > with a proprietary codec (IBM with WARP) than another (MS with WMV).
> > In fact, I prefer WMV because it's already been reverse engineered,
> > whereas getting support for this new IBM mess in free software is
> > going to be another setback to us.
> > 
> > Now, please take your proprietary crap off this list, and we'll get
> > back to implementing formats that are superior technically and
> > freedom-wise. Good riddance to you.
> 
> it was an april fool's joke... it somehow didn't arrive here until
> today, but you can check the date of that mail and see that it's 1st
> april :)))))))))))))))))))
> 
> btw. when i read it on xine-user back at 1st april i sent a mail to
> christian hjw too, demanding to get an explanation why did he decide to
> switch to closed source :)).... looks like i'll never learn :)

Hahaha, setting your computer's date back to April 1 does not give you
permission to send an April fool's joke on April 5! At least it's not
as bad as the people who set their date to 2005 and mess up the mail
archives...

Rich