Ogg Format Accusations Refuted

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday April 27, 2010 @09:21AM 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.

Denials and Belief by gringer · 2010-04-27 10:17 · Score: 0, Troll

Earnest falsehoods left unchallenged risk being accepted as fact
And emphatic denials risk a stronger belief in the denied thing.

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Re:Well written, and informative, but... by segedunum · 2010-04-27 12:31 · Score: 1, Troll

He has his knickers in a twist over an obvious joke intended to lighten-up the mood of the original article.
No, it isn't. The original 'legend tells us' phrase is an obvious piece of pretentious bullshit full of its own self-importance. Nothing else. It is not a joke at all. It was designed to be sarcastic. If you had a decent grasp of using English in a practical manner then you'd know that.

Anyway, I stopped reading after the first few pages. He's too uptight and protective to effectively defend the format.
Yay. Let's dismiss arguments because we think a person is to uptight, and worse, because we don't understand English meaning.
Re:Well written, and informative, but... by b4dc0d3r · 2010-04-27 16:00 · Score: 0, Troll

Next time, maybe he'll make his point using only XKCD links or Maddox quotes and you'll enjoy it a lot more.