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Speex Goes 1.0, Xiph Goes 501(c)3

Posted by timothy on from the free-as-in-easy dept.

Emmettfish writes "Hey, folks! We've posted an announcement this morning; Speex (the free and open voice compression codec by Jean-Marc Valin) has gone 1.0, and the Xiph.Org Foundation is now officially recognized as a charitable non-profit organization by the IRS. Donate to help us write more Free Software and get a tax break. Thanks!"

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  1. hmmm by Miguel+de+Icaza · · Score: 2, Troll

    i'd only briefly read about this project before, but just skipping over the links in the article and thinking to myself it would be surprising if these guys could pull a technology like this off without running into a patent problem or two -- anyone know?

    certainly ogg to me is a file format/stream protocol that is treading on corporate egg shells :^)

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