[!CrackMonkey!] Ogg Vorbis vs. MP3 (was Re: on pigdog)

[Sean Neakums]

commence  Shawn McMahon quotation:

> Neither accomplishes anything without the other.  Ogg Vorbis is a
> curiosity unless there's hardware on the shelves and people are
> buying it.

I have a piece of hardware here that I use to (among other things)
transport and play back about twelve gigs of Ogg Vorbis files.  It's
called a laptop.  Perhaps you have heard of them.

> It's like the RFCs; you need both rough consensus AND working code, or
> you're wasting your time.  MP3 has rough consensus and working code.

MP3 doesn't have rough consensus: it has a big licensing organisation
and a user base that has yet to be even offered a choice.  A monopoly
is not a consensus.

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