Re: [playogg-discuss] campaign objectives (was: playogg/faq: unclear phrase)

[ineiev]

Hi, Jeff

Jeff wrote:
> On May 1, 2010, at 2:49 PM, ineiev <address@hidden> wrote:
> > The code? that is, the specification of the format?
> > or the source code of an implementation?
>
> Well, the specification of the format.  I'm sure there is a little work 
> involved in making a player support another format.

Typically, yes; there might be corner cases like OOXML: as
I understand, free software developers wouldn't support it
because the format is unreasonably complicated
to independently implement (though it fits very well
to it's designer code base) -- but most likely
there is no similar multimedia format.

> > Isn't Winamp a proprietary program? the campaign is about
> > advertising VLC rather than Winamp.
>
> Yes, winamp is proprietary.
...
> True true.  In this case, if it using a proprietary application to 
> listen to ogg, so that ogg can be more mainstream, it's a compromise I 
> would support at least short term.

So, we may recommend adding "send your (proprietary) player
developers a request to support Ogg formats better"
to the action list at http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/playogg/en (?)

Regards,
Ineiev