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Ogg Format Accusations Refuted

Posted by kdawson on 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.

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

    http://xkcd.com/386/

  2. 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

  3. 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 :-)