Ogg Format Accusations Refuted 248
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kdawson
from the horse's-mouth dept.
from the horse's-mouth dept.
SergeyKurdakov sends in a followup to our discussion a couple of months ago on purported shortcomings to the Ogg format. The inventor of the format, Monty "xiphmont" Montgomery of the Xiph Foundation, now refutes those objections in detail, with the introduction: "Earnest falsehoods left unchallenged risk being accepted as fact." The refutation has another advantage besides authoritativeness: it's far better written than the attack.
Obligatory (Score:5, Funny)
http://xkcd.com/386/ [xkcd.com]
and at the end... (Score:1, Funny)
he goes "and that's why the Ogg format is awesome...bitch!" and deliberately drops the microphone a-la Chris Rock. The ogg format critic...dat muddafugga just got served, yo.
And don't forget (Score:5, Funny)
"Whenever you want information on the 'net, don't ask a question; just post a wrong answer."
-- Cancer Omega
Re:Really? (Score:3, Funny)
Oh, it's far worse than that: one of his competitors thinks it's not a good format.
This matches my experience (Score:5, Funny)
The best way to get documentation out of a project is trash talk it until a developer gets into such a frothy rage he explains it in a manner "even an idiot could understand." Used to do this all the time in the early years of Linux, worked like a charm :-)
Re:Obligatory (Score:2, Funny)
In a nutshell (Score:3, Funny)
Mans Rullgard:
"Ogg considered harmful"
Monty Montgomery:
""Ogg considered harmful" considered harmful"
Re:OSS dev fails to see flaws, news at 11 (Score:3, Funny)
You're wrong, but instead of pointing out why, I'll just note that my teeth and hairstyle are better than yours, and that my opinion is the opinion of a proven winner. Only disagreeable people would disagree with me!
(This comment is known to cause cancer in the state of California.)