[vorbis] File Extension .OGG

[Doc Holiday]

On Tue, 4 Jul 2000, Angus Griffin wrote:

> that said, I'm not completely sorry to see us losing the moron
> crowd.  better tech for smarter people, eh?  :)

...trying not to step on toes...

This seems to be a fairly typical Linux-User's attitude, but you can say all you
want about technically inept computer users, they're still in the vast majority.
We certainly could take the attitude that "smarter" people get better
technology... and, at the same time, go ahead and shoot down OGG's chances of
becoming an accepted standard.  I, for one, would love to see OGG replace MP3 and
that just isn't going to happen if we don't cater to the lowest on the
technological spectrum.  Eliteist attitudes within the OGG community aren't going
to help anyone except those greedy MP3 people.

i.r.t. the "same file spec" argument... I can very easily see the point here. And
if I double clicked on an .OGG file in windows and it started playing the sounds
of some movie I would probably just go and manually open that same OGG in my
Video&Audio player... unfortunatlely, this isn't the obvious solution to the
average user... and even if it were, it would still be considered a pain.

Sure, an Audio OGG and a Video/Audio OGG might have exactly the same format; and
sure, the Audio player COULD just disregard the Video of the latter, but let's
give Windows users that little piece of functionality that comes from having
separate file extensions... techno-philosophical paradigms aside, is it THAT big
of a problem to have separate extensions?

</doc_holiday>

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