Interestingly, the Vorbis project only really took off after mp3 started facing licensing issues. From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vorbis http://en.wikipedia.o

Interestingly, the Vorbis project only really took off after mp3 started facing licensing issues. From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vorbis http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vorbis > Intensive development began following a September 1998 letter from the Fraunhofer Society announcing plans to charge licensing fees for the MP3 audio format. Who says patents don't promote innovation? :-) (I'm only half-joking - invention forced by working around patents has long been a post-facto justification of patents.) Also, nit, it wasn't all done by just "1 FOSS guy". From the same wikipedia link: > Chris Montgomery began work on the project and was assisted by a growing number of other developers.