(Warning: I know all the xiph.org folks really well, and I'm a sympathizer. I know you weren't really going after them, but I want to explain things anyway. Sorry for being defensive.)

I understand the sentiments, but the reality is quite different. The xiph.org guys have been working on Vorbis full-time for over a year now with almost no money coming in. This isn't an attempt to get super-rich, it's an attempt to be able to continue full-time development without starving to death. The market has a need for an integerized decoder, and so they invested the time in writing one with the intentions of licensing it so they could buy food and such . They're still working their butts off so you can have the best patent free, royalty free audio format around.

Jon