Re: Distributed Reverse Engineering

Mike Melanson <[email protected]> Sat, 21 May 2005 15:59:45 -0600
Newsgroups gmane.comp.video.xine.codec.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Diego Biurrun wrote:
> On Sat, May 21, 2005 at 03:42:31PM -0600, Mike Melanson wrote:
> 
>>	Have you ever wanted to jump into reverse engineering a multimedia 
>>decoder? Here is an opportunity to help:
>>
>>  http://multimedia.cx/eggs/index.php?p=79
> 
> 
> Distributed development^wreverse engineering?  And for all these years
> now I thought this phenomenon was called open source ... ;-)

	The difference is that, generally, people working on reverse 
engineering something have always worked independently. This has 
inevitably led to redundant effort.

	I am already getting feedback on this decoder. I may expand it to others.
-- 
	-Mike Melanson


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