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Ogg Format Accusations Refuted

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.

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  1. Obligatory by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny
    1. Re:Obligatory by noidentity · · Score: 2, Funny

      That is so fitting, especially because this rebuttal quotes the original with numbered lines! I can't stop laughing.

  2. and at the end... by Anonymous Coward · · 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.

  3. And don't forget by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Whenever you want information on the 'net, don't ask a question; just post a wrong answer."

    -- Cancer Omega

  4. Re:Really? by amicusNYCL · · Score: 2, Funny

    Oh, it's far worse than that: one of his competitors thinks it's not a good format.

    --
    "Our two-party system is like a bowl of shit looking at itself in a mirror." - Lewis Black
  5. This matches my experience by Anonymous Coward · · 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 :-)

  6. In a nutshell by iris-n · · Score: 2, Funny

    Mans Rullgard:

    "Ogg considered harmful"

    Monty Montgomery:

    ""Ogg considered harmful" considered harmful"

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    entropy happens
  7. Re:OSS dev fails to see flaws, news at 11 by MrHanky · · Score: 2, 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.)