[vorbis] Low bitrate: when?

[Wilson]

Speaking of Capitalism..
What about that cool Ogg Vorbis T-shirt from the interview/article?

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From: "Monty" <xiphmont at xiph.org>
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Sent: Monday, June 18, 2001 4:53 PM
Subject: Re: [vorbis] Low bitrate: when?

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> On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 03:32:44PM -0400, Patrick Masters wrote:
> > Well, that seems kind of shitty that he isnt contributing the low bit
rate
> > to open source code. Gee, looks liek something free made someone else a
bit
> > more greedy.
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> It's not greed, it's capitalism.  (How's that for starting an
> argument! :-) ...and it's the way this works.  The first order cashing
> in on Ogg will probably be relatively 'get-rich-quick-ish' sort of
> attemts that involve little work on the part of the repackager, but I
> wanted the libogg code to be available to third parties that want to
> put real work into real enhancements and seek monetary reward.  The
> formaqt providesa great deal of room to do so, and I won't be able to
> fill that room myself.  The small core team (myself and the other Ogg
> developers) will not be able to be the only source of Ogg technical
> support for long.  Letting third parties cash in provides an incentive
> for those third parties to also take over a large share of the
> technical support load.
>
> A thriving vendor market is necessary for Ogg to succeed and I don't
> want to discourage it.  The infrastructure will remain (and must
> remain Free), but that doesn't mean for a second only altruistic
> paladins are invited.  The Freedom of the format and of our code will
> keep the playing field level.
>
> Monty
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