[sldev] Voice=Proprietary

[Dale Glass]

В сообщении от 11 марта 2007 02:33 Jason Giglio написал(a):
> Why is Linden Lab adding another closed-source proprietary dependency to
> the viewer?
>
> Shouldn't you be working to eliminate GPL-incompatible dependencies, not
> adding more?

I asked Rob about this at his office hour in-world, he said:
(log is trimmed)

>Rob Linden: architecturally speaking, voice will be a separate process. 
not open source, unfortunately, but from what I understand, open standard 
or at least documented protocol
>
>You: no OSS alternative available?
>
>Rob Linden: the solution we are going with is apparently much better than 
the open alternatives
>
>Rob Linden: I'd have personally made a different tradeoff, but I can 
understand the rationale
>
>You: well, I'm wondering if it won't be like with jpeg2000, with it ending 
up getting replaced with an OSS alternative
>
>Rob Linden: Dale, that would be the ideal

So it would seem that there are technical reasons for it, and perhaps an 
open alternative could be used while remaining compatible.

IMHO, I'd have liked to have this handled differently. Have LL announce "we 
want to add voice support, and here are the requirements. We're going with 
this closed solution because open ones aren't good enough."

Then wait a bit for comments, and see whether anybody offers to improve an 
existing OSS solution to satisfy the requirements. If so, give a deadline, 
and if it doesn't work, go on with the closed tech until an open solution 
becomes acceptable.

This way, LL could avoid spending time on integrating something that could 
eventually be replaced.

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