Re:Losers.. (Score 1)

No, that's not right. If I am developing some application and want to support some feature, I don't have time to sit down, figure out, and write a specification for that feature. Instead, if there isn't a spec around, I probably just won't implement that feature. The author had several viable points and the reply from the Xiph folks seemed to miss several of them. (Take how the reply completely missed the point about the comparison between OV and RA being that there is only one implementation not a matter of licensing issues.) The fact is that if Xiph wants their sound format to be more than a little toy, they need to do the not fun work of writing a specification, and the author was just trying to make that point. He could have just said "screw it", but instead he seems to want OV to succeed.

Code is not a specification. It is just an implementation.