Phonon?
Pfft. That stuff is old news. Seriously old news. Ancient, really.
Fireworks I by Sarah Simpson @ Flickr
Late last night, the secret cabal of KDEMM developers (mostly apachelogger, bambee, sandsmark and I) finalized our business plan (mostly through me torturing them with my rendition of ABBA’s “Dancing Queen” until consensus was achieved).
We are super excited to announce that effective immediately, everything under the great KDE Multimedia brand is now switching over to use aKode and aRts instead of the old and busted Phonon+Pulseaudio combination that has caused so much pain and ripping of hair amongst the users.
I We demand encourage everyone to download the recently released “AartKodes” SDK and start converting their applications to the new API. It is 100% source, binary, and legally incompatible, which gives us the chance to really stick it to the man this time. We’ve licensed everything under the Microsoft Public License and require a one million USD $23.73 license fee if you plan on distributing any resulting software. Next-of-kin and those from the Canadian province of Quebec are not required to pay the fee due to a user from there
Download here: http://download.kde.org/download.php?url=stable/aartkodes/0.1.0B/src/aartkodes-0.1.0B.zip
Enjoy!
– The Phonominals
“and those from the Canadian province of Quebec are not required to pay the fee”
Nice, some free stuff for me!!!! But the source code is in a language I don’t understand really well.
Here, this should help: http://www.amazon.com/The-Necronomicon-Simon/dp/0380751925
Lol, this almost got me.
Hi, the link you posted does not work. I get a weird java animation page instead (probably a fancy 404 page).
Are there any mirrors or alternate sources?
There should be a mirror in your lavatory. I’d check there first.
I am from Quebec! So I guess its free for me
Are you still using C++ and Qt, or have you all switched to Visual Basic?
We’re still using Qt, but we’re using the haskell bindings. I’ve recently grown accustomed to languages I don’t understand.
April Fool’s Jokes are lame!
Cool! I so had the nostalgia of arts! What’s better than having to spend hours trying to make your sound work in KDE? Bonus for me as I lived in Québec which makes me eligible for the free licence! Thanks to the KDEMM team for having make this possible, I know it was hard work! RIP Phonon and Viva aartkodes!
It’s about time. As I’ve been saying for a while now, “Developers. Developers. Developers. Developers!” Go on and ask me how that’s relevant to this, and I’ll throw a chair at you. Just try it. Besides, I have a patent on chairs. I have one on the Zune, too, but sadly no one seems to be bothering to infringe that one. Anyway, welcome to the glorious new, “open”* world of the Microsoft Public License. We look forward to your pound of fles… I mean, “license fee”. All your software are belong to us.
Love
Steve
* May not be “open”** in any way.
** We have a patent on that, too. Really. See the 136 companies that have already settled out of court? That *proves* it!
You are my hero. Have my babies.
A note from user’s perspective. Having this kind of fun out of your predecessors is not the best way to celebrate this day… Predecessors that shared your perspective and values, I suppose. In a few years you would be in the same place – this is a reason why I am choosing different kind of jokes for the occasion (e.g. today’s Virtuoso joke is tasty in its irony).
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