BladeEnc Development Officially Discontinued

Posted by timothy on Wednesday August 14, 2002 @01:29AM from the for-the-best-of-reasons dept.

skojt writes: "I saw on the Swedish site gnuheter.org that Tord Jansson has announced that he discontinues development of BladeEnc. He says that he is tired of lawyers, that Lame does a better job for the average user and that Ogg Vorbis is a better choice." BladeEnc fans need not worry too much, though -- Jansson also says on the site "My devotion to the free software movement is as strong as ever and I just love to tinker with code, so you can be quite sure that you haven't seen the last of me yet."

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aww man by skotte · 2002-08-14 02:04 · Score: 1, Redundant

blade is my fFavorite! i really enjoy his personal outlook on the technology, and greatly appreciate all the work put in on the product.

ah well, i cant blame him. lets hope he keeps the latest version available fFor a while.

i agree with his observations on Ogg Vorbis. it is basically better. but i think until it is a little more widely used, i'll stick with blade.

thanks fFor a good run!