[vorbis] WSJ article

[Daniel Vogel]

She didn't misspell your name - what more do you want ;-)

- Dan Fogel, Programmer, Epic Games Inc.

Monty wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 12:19:52PM -0700, Benjamin Flanders wrote:
> > --- Craig Dickson <crdic at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > > Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:
> > >
> > > > Found this on usenet:
> > > >
> > > > August 13, 2001
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > E-Business
> > > > Inventors Release Free Alternative To MP3 Music,
> > > but Cost Is High
> > > > By MEI FONG
> > > > Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > SOMERVILLE, Mass. -- Christopher Montgomery wants
> > > to be the Linus
> > > > Torvalds of music [...]
> > >
> > > Way to go, Monty!
> > >
> > Way to go???
> > I would say "What the hell are you thinking?".  Love
> > and family are the meaning of life, not a better
> > sounding audio file.
> 
> Forgive in advance, but this is a personal matter, so I'm dropping my
> professionalism for a second.
> 
> Benjamin: You're a idiot.  Thank you for believing this little bit of
> drivel from the WSJ.
> 
> You're also forgiven because you had no idea you were being an
> idiot. I can understand how a paper with the reputation of the WSJ
> would have instant credibility, but there are a number of fabricated
> facts in the story, and my divorce being because of Ogg is one of
> them.
> 
> The reporter (Mei Fong, feel free to write her and bitch) spent a good
> piece of our Ogg interview asking about my divorce (huh?), and I made
> it clear that Dana and I just never learned how to get along.  It was
> one of theose relationships where we loved each other greatly, but
> living together was constant Hell.  Ogg had nothign to do with it.
> 
> When the reporter didn't get the answer she wanted from *me*, she
> tracked down my ex-wife and interviewed *her* about it.  Dana (my
> wife) called me to warn me about it because it was clear the reporter was
> after a specific answer to her questions.  Dana didn't give the answer
> she wanted either.
> 
> So, the reporter just printed it anyway.
> 
> I called her to complain, and she had the nerve to think that I owed
> the WSJ for the huge favor of publicity.  You might say any publicity
> is good publicity, but I don't buy that crap.
> 
> 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.
> 
> 'kept me jobless'.  If I'm getting paid to work, that counts as a job,
> dammit.  Is Xiph.Org somehow not considered serious enough by WSJ
> standards to be a job?
> 
> Fume.  I expected more integrity from WSJ.
> 
> Monty
> 
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