[Ilugc] Freedom Bucket : A Bucket for Open Standards
- From: kapil@xxxxxxxxxxx (Kapil Hari Paranjape)
- Date: Sun Sep 20 10:51:20 2009
Hello,
On Sun, 20 Sep 2009, narendra sisodiya wrote:
Freedom Bucket : is a idea coined by me to make a special directory
in Linux based system which will contain on Open Format files like png for
images, ogv , ogg for video and audio.
The idea is nice. Here are some remarks:
1. Before trying for the daemon try to create a program!
2. The conversion should be loss-less (this is difficult!). For
example, conversion of bitmap to png or xpm is not lossy but
conversion to jpeg is.
3. After the program is working you can try to augment it using
FUSE.
4. There could be the option of not doing the conversion if it is
not possible --- in this case there are two choices (left to the
user), either not provide any file at all or provide the original
file unchanged.
The aim of this project to remove non-standard and royalty based
format from earth. It will be useful for those persons who want to use only
open formats.
One of the additional difficulties is that some formats are "open"
but are patent encumbered. Trying to maintain "purity" in this
context may be difficult.
Best regards,
Kapil.
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