[vorbis] WSJ article

[Monty]

On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 03:23:40PM -0700, Craig Dickson wrote:
> Monty wrote:
> 
> > For those counting: I also don't work on 'fold up tables from
> > Staples'.  I have a good desk.  She saw the desk.  She decided to
> > ignore that too.  It didn't fit the story.  She was going for the
> > 'obsessed, antisocial, destitute programmer' angle whether I fit or not. 
> 
> I read it more as "dedicated artist", but I suppose it's just a matter
> of perspective. Certainly you're entitled to be highly annoyed about
> the misrepresentation.
> 
> You haven't called me an idiot yet, but anyway, I apologise for my own
> excessive credulousness in this matter.

Um, oops, well, I do genuinely feel bad for calling Ben an idiot now.
And the article really wasn't that bad; a few things in it just seriously rubbed me the wrong way.  Anyway, I'm mostly over the WSJ, really :-)

> Still, the article mostly dealt with Vorbis rather than your private
> life, and most of what it had to say about Vorbis was within the usual
> margins of error, aside from mistaking RC2 for the final release. It's
> good publicity for Vorbis, whatever else one might say about it.

It's true, the Vorbis aspects were good.  A little scattershot, but
positive about the software (even if it's creator is a bit of a crank
:-)

Monty

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