- From: Ivo Emanuel Gonçalves <justivo@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2007 00:22:52 +0100
I would like to make clear one more thing: When I attended the iCommons Summit earlier this month, I have met the project manager of the OLPC project, you know the $150 laptop for children in developing nations, and the information that I have right now is that it will not support proprietary media formats. If all goes well, there will be a large public using Theora video in their daily-life. Shouldn't they be able to see Theora video online? Do we not agree that the <video> element will be a great tool for online education? This won't happen if the <video> element becomes a failure, a failure if every vendor tries to set a different standard for video. Not to mention that patented formats will not work for the large public using the OLPC systems. See it as you want. Mozilla, Opera, and the KDE team have agreed that Theora and Vorbis are perfect for media over the web. We do not know the official position of Microsoft, although we can imagine. We do know, however, the official stance of Apple. Should everyone change their plans because of Apple's decision? I think not, but then again I work for none of those companies. -Ivo
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