[Advocacy] Me, the grouser?

[Tor-Einar Jarnbjo]

Hi everyone,

after attempting to correct Ivo's statement about Theora and Vorbis 
being the "default codecs" in the HTML 5 draft, I just got the following 
mail off list:

"Why are you still here? And by here I mean the Xiph lists. I've seen 
you speaking ill of our formats and of free software more than in one 
occasion. So, for what purpose do you still stick around? What is your 
intention?"

Am I really coming through like such a beefy grouser? I hope people 
knowing me a little bit better realize that I've spent quite some time 
on Xiph related work, which however does not keep me from being 
realistic and rather sceptic towards many of the approaches I've seen to 
support Xiph. It might just be me, but I don't think bashing around on 
other formats or claiming incorrect advantages of the Xiph formats will 
do any good.

Regards,
Tor