Section 6 of 6
The people and foundations behind the formats
Where the code came from and who kept it free.
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One person's hack, and the company that grew on top of it
The DivX ;-) build is credited to Jérôme Rota. DivXNetworks formed afterwards to make a legitimate codec out of the attention.
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Xiph kept building formats nobody had to license
The Xiph.Org Foundation produced Vorbis, Theora, FLAC and Opus, on the position that a format everybody uses should not be owned.
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