- From: Håkon Wium Lie <howcome@opera.com>
- Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 23:03:43 +0100
- To: "Robert Brodrecht" <w3c@robertdot.org>
- Cc: <asbjorn@ulsberg.no>, <public-html@w3.org>, <whatwg@whatwg.org>
Also sprach Robert Brodrecht: > As I said before, I think we have a lot better chance at getting a common, > cross-browser, cross-platform format with MPEG 4. The reason WHAT WG > proposed Theora is *because* it is FOSS, not for quality, size, ease of > implementation, or anything else (as far as I know). Due to software patents, MPEG 4 costs money. Also, it requires more processing power than many devices have. Who will pay for licenses to OLPC's machines? And, how will the get the power to decode? I think it's vital that we find an open format that the free world can use. If MPEG4 is the alternative, we might as well continue using Flash and <object>. But it's not a world I want to live in. -h&kon Håkon Wium Lie CTO °þe®ª howcome@opera.com http://people.opera.com/howcome
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