Ogg Vorbis goes gold

As mentioned at The Register, “Ogg Vorbis goes gold” today.

For music fans the hope is that major hardware vendors will back the format, which is promoted as offering higher quality playback in less space than MP3. [...]

However, the code isn’t quite ready for download by the masses:

News of the release came to us in an email from Reg reader Douglas Gore, who told us: “Ogg Vorbis officially become version 1.0 today as announced on the developers mailing list, they haven't announced this officially yet as they are preparing it for full release, but the code is in the CVS and already people have compiles of the final code floating around in the Internet.” [...]

The big-win for me is that Ogg isn’t encumbered by patents, unlike mp3.