[vorbis] What's in a name

[Thomas Illingworth]

explanation taken from
http://music.zdnet.com/misc/lowdown/081500_oggvorbis.html

What does the name "Ogg Vorbis" mean?
First, Vorbis was taken from a character of an ''exquisitor'' in the book
"Small Gods," a title in a series of Terry Pratchett fantasy novels.
Formally, Vorbis is the name for the specific audio compression scheme used
to create Ogg Vorbis files. It is ultimately part of the Ogg Vorbis CODEC
project (a branch of the overarching, open-multimedia Ogg project), which is
headed by Christopher Montgomery and his team. 

-----Original Message-----
From: Teo de Hesselle [mailto:teo at nvnetworking.com]
Sent: 07 September 2000 10:57
To: vorbis at xiph.org
Subject: RE: [vorbis] What's in a name

> of these.  Since names often have some significance in the opensource
> movement and these are somewhat unusual, I was wondering if someone could
> comment on on OGG and Vorbis in particular?

It's all over the website.

Or it was :)

IIRC, "ogg" was to do something by brute force/ignorance until you got what
you wanted, from Nethack, apparently.

Thats all I remember.


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Teo de Hesselle
NV Networking

teo at nvnetworking.com
0416 215 289

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