[vorbis] WSJ article

[Gian-Carlo Pascutto]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Moritz Grimm" <gtgbr at gmx.net>
To: <vorbis at xiph.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2001 2:33 AM
Subject: Re: [vorbis] WSJ article

> Hm. I'm a little confused ... on the one hand we have a pretty good
> article from a technical viewpoint (especially compared to some other
> articles I read so far), on the other hand we have those moronic
> implications about "OGG --> bad for Monty's social life" that has a bad
> aftertaste. It almost sounds FUDdy for me. With Monty being the one that
> keeps OGG alive these days, people are lead to be uncertain about OGG's
> future. With the idea of OGG ruining Monty's life, this is even logical
> to think... Why should big companies use OGG technology within their
> products if there's a certain possibility that OGG's running dry some
> day? 

Ogg is an open and free technology. I can exist even without Monty. 

Even though he is by far the main coder nowadays, there are good
reasons why the project could stay alive and improve without him.
For one, there are several other people that have a reasonable
enough knowledge of the encoder to work on it if needed.
Another one is that Monty's code is (IMHO) very cleanly written
and very understandable. It's perhaps even doable to learn Vorbis 
just by browsing its source.
Lastly, all major infrastructure seems to be done at this point,
and it's unlikely the code will go through major fundamental changes
in the first version.

That said, it's Monty's will and knowledge that have kept the project 
advancing so fast. Missing him would be a major hit no doubt, but
not something we can never recover from.

> Since it seems that Mei Fong wanted that misinformation inside her
> article at all cost, it appears that she's just stupid or funded by
> someone. 

No, she is just a good journalist (i.e. one that brings readers, which
is all that counts really) and she knowns people like a story with
a personal touch to it. People like stereotypes, so it's easy to 
portray Monty as a shy hacker type with no social life and get away
with it.


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GCP

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