[vorbis] How to make Vorbis popular

[Per Wigren]

Easy! We just put our 1000-record OGG collections online, but don't say 
anything about it on the official mailinglists! =)

<p>torsdagen den 10 januari 2002 21.32 skrev du:
> Ogg Vorbis is still not known by the mainstream and not widely used
> these days.
> I've been thinking about this... MP3 is so popular because people can
> download music for free (and thus pirating music).
> I recommend Vorbis to everybody I know, but most of them refuse to even
> try it because it's not popular (or because they are hardcore MP3
> zealots), which results in a circle (little people use it because it's
> not popular, but it will not get popular because little people use it).
> Yet DivX 4.0 (which is only a marketing name, and has nothing to do with
> the "old" DivX), gains popularity day by day, even though it wasn't not
> used by anybody when it was first released.
>
> Is the only way for Vorbis to become popular to promote it as a tool for
> music piracy?
> Of course I understand none of the developers want Vorbis to become
> something like that.
>
> Comments? Flames?
>
>
>
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