Keith Moore wrote:
It's not anywhere nearly that bad. First of all, we don't need multiple
compression algorithms -- we need one that everyone can use freely.
I slightly disagree with this. There are 2 types of compression: 1)
content-type specific compression algorithm, 2) general purpose compression.
The content-type specific compression is tuned specifically for a certain
type of data, e.g. audio uses adpcm audio compression. Unless we create
a new subtype for the compressed audio data, we need to support this type of
compression algorithm.
On the other hand, the general purpose compression can be used anywhere else.
-Vincent