OT: why aren't we campaigning against Apple/Nokia's fight against the use of OGG? (was Re: the end of life for flash player (HTML5))
On Mon, 2009-06-08 at 17:30 -0400, Gregory Maxwell wrote:
2009/6/8 Kelly Miller <lightsolphoenix(a)gmail.com>:
> Thanks to Apple, that isn't going to be happening. Apple's pushing for the
> required default video codec to be the aforementioned nonfree MPEG4/H.264
> codec, and they don't seem to care whether it can be shipped by anybody
> else.
Perhaps pedantry but for the sake of accuracy:
Some of the patent holders in the MPEG-LA patent pool (Apple and
Nokia) pushed hard for there to be no royalty-free baseline
recommended in the standard. I'm not aware of anyone, Apple included,
pushing for H.264 in the standard since the adoption of an encumbered
format as formal formal default is simply a complete non-starter.
I'm sick of Apple and Nokia's bullcrap about OGG being encumbered and
constantly fighting against it. I think it's a clear sign that OGG is
better and the they (Apple particularly) don't want people knowing that
they don't have to be locked into Apple's mini-monopoly.
So, after having given so much to Apple and Nokia (you can mount a very
sound argument that without OSS, Apple would be a backwater stuck with
OS9) why aren't we making noise about it being time that Apple and Nokia
give a little back.
I for one am sick of knowing we enabled them, but in a way that they
seem to feel it's fine to lock us out.
R.