On Tuesday 11 October 2005 17:42, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
This is pretty interesting. Especially the perfomance chart at http://xaraxtreme.org/about/. If Xara's renderer is really that great and will be opensourced, Inkscape could definitely benefit from it.
Yes. I wonder if any of this could make it into Cairo... :)
I'm not sure any reasonable final decision is possible at this point. However I would prefer not seing another RealPlayer/HelixPlayer situation, when fully opensourced version of the same code looks the same but isn't interesting at all in comparison to commercial one.
Agreed :(
Also, the whole Real thing seemed to be way too motivated by corporate needs. GStreamer already existed, but they seemed determined to do it all their own way, and to replace established technologies rather than contributing to the community. Certainly, Xara seem to be going open source for the same reasons Real did -- MS moving in on their territory. Hopefully Xara will keep their motivations under control, and be cooperative rather than competitive.