Apple ALAC now open source

[Bonky]

"Apple is making the Apple Lossless Audio Codec (ALAC) available as an open source project. Full details can be found on the Apple Lossless Audio Codec project page. " (http://alac.macosforge.org/)

See: http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1264865

Not quite sure what this means in terms of the wider picture but I'll let you guys tell me...

BW

Richard/Bonky

[goraman]

It means other music players and Ubuntu/banshee will be able to do ALAC!!!!
so it will be possible to ditch itunes soon!!!
Then people who use ipods and apple products can be supported by open source software.
This is huge for other operating systems and competition in the market.

[Ali Tait]

Too little too late IMHO. Apple should have done this a long time ago. This kind of attitude is why I've never bought an apple product.

[lurcher]

This is huge for other operating systems and competition in the market.

Other than it still being covered by patient, so incompatible with GPL3. And we know Apple are happy to use the legal system.

[synsei]

Too little too late IMHO. Apple should have done this a long time ago. This kind of attitude is why I've never bought an apple product.

+1 with bells on ;)

[Ali Tait]

Aye, Android Roolz! :eyebrows:

[aquapiranha]

This will be good news for non itunes users, like me, and apple too.