Lasse Penttinen
15 Apr 2003 22:49
According to Emmett Plant's personal weblog, he has been voted out of the Xiph.org foundation by the board. He personally describes the issue on his personal weblog as personality conflicts.
Effective really-soon-now, I'll be stepping down as the CEO of the Xiph.org Foundation. It's not a decision I chose to make; It was made for me. The board of directors at Xiph have cited a 'personality conflict,' and I'm being pushed out. I've known for about a week now, and it's still sinking in.
Besides personality conflicts, the Xiph.org has had trouble delivering the results as well. Their first product was the free audio codec OGG Vorbis, which has been at the version 1.0 for quite some time. After the first stable release there hasn't been any developement, at least not public versions, and the the codec v1.0 is still far from optimized and outperformed by competitors especially at high bitrates. Xiph.org also has on going video codec projects, but there are no significant developements released.
The idea of open and free A/V codecs is of course wondeful - who wouldn't love the concept. Xiph.org has been able to raise quite a bit of media attention towards their projects, but so far it has been more hype than results.
Emmett Plant's weblog
Xiph.org (no official statement online yet)