> as far as I understand it works approximately this way in Haiku Yep, it is indeed. You can of course write your own translators for custom file formats and i

> as far as I understand it works approximately this way in Haiku Yep, it is indeed. You can of course write your own translators for custom file formats and install them along with your application; but then anything which already handled whatever representation they produced (e.g. PNG/JPG/etc. images -> BBitmap, Haiku's image buffer class) could then handle those filetypes also. > This is not true, the patent has expired AFAIK Only last year, and this document was mostly written a decade ago :) Haiku can now play MP3 out of the box also (and since the servers and buildbots are mostly in Germany, we don't really pay much attention to U.S. patents anyway at this point.)