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0 pointsjcalvinowens2y ago0 comments

> MS Windows, MS Office, Adobe, Autodesk, Oracle, Winrar and thousands of more wonderful software should not be taken seriously.

Apples and oranges. I don't need word processing software to be open source to understand how it works. A proportedly novel compression algorithm is a different story...

I can be totally honest with you: FLAC being open source is more valuable to me than any performance benefit you could ever possibly offer over it. It only becomes interesting if I can actually read the code and see what you did.

I am genuinely interested in what you've done here, and I sincerely hope you publish it.

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HakanAbbas2y ago· 4 in thread

Hmm. Of course, we don't need to know how Oracle is fast and secure, why Autodesk is a monopoly in the industry, winrar is still used a lot despite being paid, and how Adobe's artificial intelligence-powered filters work.

I am developing HALAC and HALIC as a hobby and I don't expect everyone to use them. I'm happy when I can get good results, and it's bad when I can't. I say this as someone who has been dealing with data compression for 9 years.

jcalvinowensOP2y ago

I think the results are very interesting: just to reiterate, I would love to see what you've done here, and I hope you publish it.

Obviously, it's your right to decide... but especially if you think of it as a hobby, why not release the source? It would make your work much more valuable for a lot more people.

HakanAbbas2y ago

Frankly, if I publish open sources now, I can't take care of them again. Because there will be no excitement. I say this because I know myself very well.

When I bring my work to a certain stage, I would like to deliver it to a team that can claim it. However, I want to see how much I can improve my work alone.

kazinator2y ago

Autodesk has a monopoly because, oh, web browsers don't have to open Autocad drawings.

The amount of media playback and serving software out there is innumerable. If most of it doesn't handle some obscure format, that format is screwed.

Getting a new format everywhere is a difficult battle; the adoption barriers are high. Even if the thing is completely royalty free, and comes with a great, open source reference implementation.

Something that is closed, and has no backing of some corporate consortium or ITU type body or whatever, is basically fucked.

HakanAbbas2y ago

You say it's not worth spending time on such work, discovering new things and pondering. I understand.

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