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[Michael Smith]

On Thursday 26 February 2004 03:41, Daniel James wrote:
> > In referece to the OggCast suggestion, I think Icecast is a brand
> > on it's own right
>
> I don't think anyone outside the existing community knows what Icecast
> is. I can appreciate that there's probably an emotional attachment to
> the name, but it makes no sense in terms of branding.

You're probably right there - but I also don't think icecast is really a core 
part of the "Xiph mission". The 'core' part of Xiph projects is to provide 
free and open multimedia codecs, in my opinion. 

We also do lots of application-level software - ranging from vorbis-tools, to 
icecast, to cdparanoia. This stuff helps us to get exposure for the core 
codecs, but is not really an end in itself.

(Opinions above are mine, not neccesarily Xiph's - but when I work on things 
like vorbis and icecast, that's what I think).

<p><p>Mike

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