[vorbis] offtopic mailer discussion

[Glendon M. Gross]

Kyle Rose wrote:

> > So, you are saying that it is *okay* for an author to deliberately
> > write a program that he *KNOWS* will generate mail that 95%+ of the
> > world can *NOT* read?
>
> No, that's not the proper justification.  What *is* okay is for
> someone to write to the spec even *if* it breaks 95% of the world in
> order to encourage software publishers to follow the spec.
> Non-profits will not typically adjust themselves to be
> Microsoft-compatible at the expense of standards-compliance unless
> they see some long-term advantage to that strategy.
>

This is especially true since in the event that Microsoft did fix the bug by
making the
next version of OE standards compliant, anybody who followed them in the
previous
version would potentially have produced some broken software (which might
then
have to be changed again.)  Market share does not necessarily imply a right
to violate
published standards.

I am very glad that Ogg Vorbis is not written with "Microsoft
Compatibility" as
its primary design goal.

Regards,

Glendon Gross

<p>>
> Cheers,
> Kyle
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