[mb-devel] Music Matcher SOC 2007

Frederic Da Vitoria davitofrg at gmail.com
Sun Mar 18 16:34:23 UTC 2007


Ben,

Arnoldo spoke about a "plan B", which I understand as a fallback
system if MB was ever unable to use MusicIP.

2007/3/18, Ben <bench at silentmedia.com>:
> Well, of course. But you have to balance that risk against the facts
> that PUIDs are working just fine right now (assuming MusicIP already
> knows about them), that MB has built up a rather large library of
> PUIDs and a code investment in the technology, and that MusicIP
> donates a non-trivial amount to MB on a recurring basis.
>
> On Mar 17, 2007, at 7:18 PM, Arnoldo Muller wrote:
>
> >  I think it would be nice to have a fully open source
> > solution. If MusicIP at one point disappears, or if they decide to
> > change the licensing scheme (even though they have promised to not do
> > that) wouldn't be nice to have a plan B? :)

-- 
Frederic Da Vitoria



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