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Java Media Framework Drops MP3
realinvalidname writes "Sun had stopped downloads of its Java Media Framework about a week ago due to an undisclosed 'licensing issue.' Now we know what it is, as they've removed MP3 encoding and decoding from the JMF that's downloadable now. Of course, this isn't surprising given recent news about
new MP3 licensing terms."
I run LINUX on my SPARC cause ITS MORE STABLE AND FASTR tahn SOLARIS..
they HSOULDNT" USE MP# but OGG
ogg is BETTER cause its made by LINUS TORVALODODOS
if this is modded down im going to kill myself
I am starting a pretty ambitious Open Source project and I was told this was the place to run it by people. I wish to reinact the American Civil War using chimpanzees with micro-computers planted inside their brains in order to control their behaviour. *Of course* I would like to run Linux on the apes, so I'd like to know if anyone would be interested in helping me with the coding. With all the brilliant minds I'm told are here on Slashdot.org I don't believe it will be very difficult to implement this project. I can take care of all the surgical procedures as I saw brain surgery done on the television once and as a computer science major I'm obviously much smarter than a medical student, so it should be easy. I'm most interested in recreating the battles as close to as they really happened as possible, so anyone who would like to help please reply to my post. Thanks so much.
Love,
Joe Dirte
That's why they spend so much time fucking with their computers ... sexual frustration!
OMG what the hell are you talking about this site has reached a new level of absurdity. I'd thought I'd seen it all, I guess I was wrong. Jeez.
I have a feeling that you're a retarded monkey fucker
Oh, you mean the recent news that you irresponsibly covered, without amending the original post, resulting in much ado about nothing, as basically nothing changed?
m l
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/26893.ht
Next time, when you post a story that's clearly going to cause paranoia and misunderstanding, try to be a bit more adult about it. Mod this down as far as you like - I like Ogg, too, but if this is what it takes for it to gain widespread acceptance, something's wrong.
So now the Java programs I wrote last year --those "write once run everywhere" programs-- cannot be run on today's JVM. The only way to make them run will be to insist the user installs an old JVM. Like that's gonna happen.
Hey Sun, take a page from the W3 and don't add standards to your standard that you can't depend on for reasonable licencing terms.
To each, mine.
ROFLMAO
What a wanker.
Even my dog could install Windows XP in under 5 tries.
Well maybe they're not about to go bankrupt -- but given that they seem to be too cheap to buy a license to distribute the MP3 decoder element of their software you have to wonder don't you?
I noticed that they'd "temporarily suspended downloads" of the JMF when I went to download it a couple of weeks ago -- although no mention was made at that time exactly which license was the "issue" involved.
Having co-authored a book about Java, having got the tee-shirt, having collected the coffee-mug, and having the Java-cap in my closet, I have to admit that I'm disappointed with the way Sun have screwed up what could have been a beautiful thing.
Either they're going to sink enough resource into Java to fix the bugs, create a more programmer friendly GUI classlib, and compete head-on with Microsoft's offerings -- or they're going to nickle and dime the project all the way to the grave. I fear the latter is more likely based on events of the past five years or so.
Sad really -- I like Java.