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IDF: Intel drops Rambus for workstations

The chipmaker is to end support for Rambus DRAM technology in new workstation chipsets Read more

12 September, 2002 by Michael Kanellos

Winamp glitch may benefit open source

...of the popular Winamp media player could provide a boost for the royalty-free alternative to the MP3 format known as Ogg Vorbis. AOL Time... Read more

2 May, 2002 by Gwendolyn Mariano

W3C rejigs image format

...GIF graphics in software applications, free-software developers created PNG as a royalty free alternative. While they were at it, they added some capabilities that... Read more

12 November, 2003 by Paul Festa

GIF patent to expire, will PNG survive?

...the question of whether a rival, open-source format, created as a royalty-free alternative, will become obsolete. The situation has also rekindled debate about... Read more

9 June, 2003 by Paul Festa

Ogg Vorbis plays with hardware support

Ogg Vorbis, an audio format created to provide a royalty-free alternative to MP3, could at last be making its way into... Read more

4 September, 2002 by Matthew Broersma

Video format turns to open-source developers for aid

...Monday that it will blend its video codec with Ogg Vorbis, a royalty-free alternative to the MP3 format. Under an agreement between On2 and... Read more

24 June, 2002 by Gwendolyn Mariano
GameMapper 1.0.1

GameMapper 1.0.1

...pros. It was created to give any developer access to an affordable, royalty free alternative to software such as Epic's UnrealED, ID Software's... Read more

9 November, 2005

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