Re: [Advocate Play Ogg] Separate website?

[Silvia Pfeiffer]

> Also, Xiph does seem to appreciate the initiative
> (http://www.wired.com/software/coolapps/news/2007/05/playogg).

I don't think that's the case. The feeling I got from the Xiph
community was that we're happy to have more exposure. There are just a
few weird things about the playogg initiative:

* it's weird to see an address@hidden mailing list when there's
already an address@hidden mailing list.
* why is it vorbis-focused and doesn't include speex, flac, theora, or dirac?
* why does it have such a strong vlc focus when there's other software
that supports Ogg Vorbis, too?
* why is xiph only mentioned in passing and not as the core
organisation to address wrt Vorbis? (the recent changes of wording are
good, btw :)

But generally, Xiph is very happy to have organisations like the fsf
push open formats. Archive.org, Wikipedia and Mozilla are other
organisations that have caught on by now. The more people talk about
open codecs, the better - we all want a free-er world.

Silvia.