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Re: Intend to package: cdindex



On Tue, Mar 16, 1999 at 21:37:16 +0000, Adrian Bridgett wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 16, 1999 at 12:14:06AM +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> > What is wrong with the existing CDDB implementations? There are lots of
> > those already, and the program that created cddb (xmcd afaik) has always
> > been GPL'ed as well.
> 
> I read somewhere that the CDDB DB had been bought by someone (MS?)

Something like that. Check out
	"Escient (CDDB company) trying to monopolize market?"
		http://slashdot.org/articles/99/03/08/0945228.shtml
and
	"OpenSource Alternative to CDDB"
		http://slashdot.org/articles/99/03/09/0923213.shtml

> Adrian (not avoiding TLAs and FLAs and TLAs)

Tsk. Tsk. "FLA" is of course the wrong abbreviation, as it is a TLA. The
correct abbreviation is "ETLA".

Ray
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