[ Thanks to Dave Fancella for this
link. ]
“Monty is a man that generally needs no introduction, so I must
admit I’m at a loss to write one. For those of you who don’t know
Monty, you should. 😉 He is the mastermind behind the Ogg container
and some of its various codecs. He wrote the Vorbis codec for
encoding music in direct opposition to the patent abuse on the
proliferate mp3 codec. Otherwise, he spends a large proportion of
his time working on multimedia software that won’t sink by its own
weight in patents, and thusly directly engaging abusive software
patent policies by various companies who will go unnamed for the
moment. I know Monty by our mutual association with Audacity. As a
long-time lurker, I was watching when Monty appeared out of the
blue with a bunch of patches to fix various bugs in Audacity, and
since then he has contributed quite a bit of code to Audacity, in
his spare time…”
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