[sldev] Voice=Proprietary

[Callum Lerwick]

On Mon, 2007-03-12 at 07:16 -0400, Jesse Nesbitt wrote:
> On 3/12/07, Callum Lerwick <seg at haxxed.com> wrote:
>         On Sat, 2007-03-10 at 21:38 -0600, David Fries wrote:
>         > 3. This is where we ask Linden Labs for a nice document
>         describing the
>         > protocol, so it can be reimplemented.
>         
>         What a waste of everyone's time and effort. 
> 
> I find it funny that you're saying "dump this proprietary crap", and
> yet you're also saying that it'd be a waste of effort to reimplement
> it.

Yes, that's what I'm saying. Linden Lab has put themselves in a tough
position. Are they going to stubbornly charge ahead with a proprietary
solution, continuing to waste even more time and effort, or swallow
their pride and do the right thing?

> Voice has been in the works for awhile, and you can't just tell the
> Linden developers to chuck all their work without some viable
> replacement. 

Actually, I can. They're developers. If there's really no viable open
source solution, help develop one. Use the vast number of existing
building blocks available to you. License it GPL. And make the world a
better place for all of us.

Tell me, does Linden Lab even get to see any source for their chosen
voice solution? I know they don't get to see the source for fmod. Food
for thought:

http://www.faqs.org/docs/artu/ch16s01.html

Vorbis streaming is broken on Linux and OSX because fmod is broken and
there's nothing Linden Lab can do to fix it because they don't have the
source.
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