[vorbis] File Extension .OGG

[Daniel Lyons]

On Mon, 3 Jul 2000, Doc Holiday wrote:

> 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?  :)

> 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.

isn't it interesting how a single haughty attitude can bring the essential
underlying problem to the fore?  I mean really...do we want the largest
computer using group to consider Vorbis nothing but a haughty attempt to
convert people to linux?  not really.  

there are valid points for the
argument that the extension doesn't matter.  but they are only valid
assuming you won't be using windows.  think about that.

Daniel

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