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#35
Originally Posted by gerbick View Post
I always thought DivX preceded XviD... where the group (hacker group) Radius did the groundwork for DivX before it was rolled into an honest company.

Or something like that. This is going back to '98-'99 or so.
Yes, but from my understanding, the people who wanted to keep it free developed the XviD strand, while DivX attempted to go commercial.