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For what looks at first glance to be a potentially impactful development, this post and the "encode.su" one linked from it are extremely sparse on details. Where is the source code? A detailed description of what the codec actually does? References to relevant publications? All I see are two mystery Windows binaries, hosted on a forum I've never heard about. The fact that "encode.su" uses the world's most notorious d…
This doesn’t seem very interesting: there’s no source, the benchmarks are self reported, and the details in the forum post (??) are light at best. It’s basically just a forum post with a self-signed .exe download…
Novel, but until it's open source, it will never be taken seriously.
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You are right about this. But there are things I should add to Halic and Halac. When I complete them and realize that it will really be used by someones, it will of course be open source.
> When I complete them and realize that it will really be used by someones, it will of course be open source There is a chicken and egg problem with this strategy: Few people will want to, or even be able to, use this unless it’s open source and freely licensed. The alternatives are mature, open or mostly open, and widely implemented. Minor improvements in speed aren’t enough to get everyone to put up with any diffic…
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You are right about this. But there are things I should add to Halic and Halac. When I complete them and realize that it will really be used by someones, it will of course be open source.
> When I complete them and realize that it will really be used by someones, it will of course be open source There is a chicken and egg problem with this strategy: Few people will want to, or even be able to, use this unless it’s open source and freely licensed. The alternatives are mature, open or mostly open, and widely implemented. Minor improvements in speed aren’t enough to get everyone to put up with any diffic…
Making it opensource now would just ruin that leverage.
I am with you OP
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> When I complete them and realize that it will really be used by someones, it will of course be open source There is a chicken and egg problem with this strategy: Few people will want to, or even be able to, use this unless it’s open source and freely licensed. The alternatives are mature, open or mostly open, and widely implemented. Minor improvements in speed aren’t enough to get everyone to put up with any diffic…
Maybe he is just waiting for the right investor that has a purpose for the codec so he can reinburse his time investment. Making it opensource now would just ruin that leverage. I am with you OP
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Novel, but until it's open source, it will never be taken seriously.
There are things I should add to Halic and Halac. When I complete them and realize that it will really be used by someones, it will of course be open source.