Monday, April 18, 2005

The Attempt to Port RubyCocoa to GNUstep

RubyCocoa seems to be more functional than RIGS. IMHO, to unify Ruby -> GNUstep/Cocoa interface would allow us to write portable GNUstep/Cocoa based program. After trying to build RubyCocoa on GNUstep, I found that there is not NSNetService
and NSDistantObjectRequest on GNUstep. I don't know why they does not exist. By this result, I think I should learn more about about NSProxy. ;-)

Friday, April 08, 2005

Why do we should use Theora instead of *MPEG4* ?

It was painful when we can't read or procude some document or audio or video in format that some people want. MS .doc is one of the example we don't exactly how to encode and decode .doc . Thus, someone try to use open standard for file format. Unfortunately, some open standards suck coz we can't use it freely. We may have to buy its document. However to buy document is not the most terrible. Some open standards are patent which means that we can't not use it freely without permission of its owner. By patent, free/open source software developers in some part of the world can't develope their encoders/decoders and distribute them freely.

MPEG4 is patent technology, isn't it? Is there any of its owners allow us to use MPEG4? IMHO, we should recognise other format that we are allowed to use - Theora ,for instance.