[vorbis] How to make Vorbis popular

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Craig Dickson wrote:

> 
> So you're complaining about the version number being < 1.0? That seems
> silly.
> 

<p>Not to journalists and non-techies it doesn't.

> As for market share, the history of personal computers has a number of
> examples of established products suddenly dying because something better
> came along. Nobody uses .ARC compressed archives anymore, and in fact I
> think that's the most exact analogy from history that one could draw.
> The arc utility was free for personal use, and very popular. Then pkarc
> came along, and the company behind arc started talking about lawsuits,
> so pkarc was rewritten as pkzip, and it was clearly better. Within
> months, arc was history.
> 

<p>The ARJ and RAR formats were better than zip and
also free but they never knocked zip off the throne.

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