[vorbis] WSJ article

Bacchus 13
Thu, 16 Aug 2001 11:33:18 -0000

Well...I did not have time to read this mailing list recently, so this
article was quite a surprise...in a way, more than the RC2 release.

I also felt this article caricaturising Monty as a kind of 'anti-social
geek who failed in a marriage.'  However, as I have already read quite
a lot of his opinions here, I just laughed at it.  Just a 'geek' cannot
write them.  ...Then, I came across the replays of Monty himself.

About a divorce, I think it's quite common recently and that it is quite
classical a Christian attitude to regard it as a social sigma or a
'failure'
(if you prefer a 'modern' word).

My personal opinion about this thread is just that it is nice to see
hackers are also human beings like me (Ben, a "dedicated artist"
wouldn't
have defended his love to a woman over his love to a format, in my opinon
;-)).  The difference is that I am an ordinary citizen who doesn't even
worth a gossip.  This is the world of capitalism and information where
Every celebrity has to learn how to deal with mass media.  Then, again,
way to go, Monty.  ;-)

---- xiphmont@xiph.org (Monty) wrote:

> And the article really wasn't that bad; a few things in it just
seriously
> rubbed me the wrong way.  Anyway, I'm mostly over the WSJ, really :-)
>
> It's true, the Vorbis aspects were good.  A little scattershot, but
> positive about the software (even if it's creator is a bit of a crank
> :-)
>
> Monty

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