+1 On 2/21/10, Sagar <[email protected]> wrote: > +1 > > On 2/21/10, Laxmi Khatiwada <[email protected]> wrote: >> FW from FSD >> >> Foss in market? >> >> Openpen letter to Google: free VP8, and use it on YouTube >> <http://www.fsf.org/share/?u=http://www.fsf.org/blogs/community> >> >> Dear Google, >> >> With your purchase of On2, you now own both the world's largest video site >> (YouTube) and all the patents behind a new high performance video codec -- >> VP8. Just think what you can achieve by releasing the VP8 codec under an >> irrevocable royalty-free license and pushing it out to users on YouTube? >> You >> can end the web's dependence on patent-encumbered video formats and >> proprietary software (Flash). >> >> To sit on this technology or merely use it as a bargaining chip would be a >> disservice to the free world, while bringing at best limited short-term >> benefits to your company. To free VP8 without recommending it to YouTube >> users would be a wasted opportunity and damaging to free software browsers >> like Firefox. We all want you to do the right thing. Free VP8, and use it >> on >> YouTube! >> >> *Why this would be amazing* >> >> The world would have a new free format unencumbered by software patents. >> Viewers, video creators, free software developers, hardware makers -- >> everyone -- would have another way to distribute video without patents, >> fees, and restrictions. The free video format Ogg Theora was already at >> least as good for web video (see a >> comparison<http://people.xiph.org/~greg/video/ytcompare/comparison.html>) >> as its nonfree competitor H.264, and we never did agree with your >> objections >> to using it. But since you made the decision to purchase VP8, presumably >> you're confident it can meet even those objections, and using it on >> YouTube >> is a no-brainer. >> >> You have the leverage to make such free formats a global standard. YouTube >> is the world's largest video site, home to nearly every digital video ever >> made. If YouTube merely offered a free format as an option, that alone >> would >> bring support from a slew of device makers and applications. >> >> This ability to *offer* a free format on YouTube, however, is only a tiny >> fraction of your real leverage. The real party starts when you begin to >> encourage users' browsers to support free formats. There are lots of ways >> to >> do this. Our favorite would be for YouTube to switch from Flash to free >> formats and HTML, offering users with obsolete browsers a plugin or a new >> browser (free software, of course). Apple has had the mettle to ditch >> Flash >> on the iPhone and the iPad -- albeit for suspect reasons and using >> abhorrent >> methods (DRM) -- and this has pushed web developers to make Flash-free >> alternatives of their pages. You could do the same with YouTube, for >> better >> reasons, and it would be a death-blow to Flash's dominance in web video. >> >> But even some smaller actions would also have an impact. You could >> interest >> users with HD videos in free formats, for example, or aggressively invite >> users to upgrade their browsers (instead of upgrading Flash). Steps like >> these on YouTube would quickly push browser support for free formats to >> 50% >> and beyond, and they would slowly increase the number of people who never >> bother installing Flash. >> >> If you care about free software and the free web (a movement and medium to >> which you owe your success) you must take bold action to replace Flash >> with >> free standards and free formats. Patented video codecs have already done >> untold harm to the web and its users, and this will continue until we stop >> it. Because patent-encumbered formats were costly to incorporate into >> browsers, a bloated, ill-suited piece of proprietary software (Flash) >> became >> the de facto standard for online video. Until we move to free formats, the >> threat of patent lawsuits and licensing fees hangs over every software >> developer, video creator, hardware maker, web site and corporation -- >> including you. >> >> You can use your purchase of On2 merely as a bargaining chip to achieve >> your >> own private solution to the problem, but that's both a cop-out and a >> strategic mistake. Without making VP8 a free format, it's just another >> video >> codec. And what use is another video format with patent-limited browser >> support? You owe it to the public and to the medium that made you >> successful >> to solve this problem, for all of us, forever. Organizations like Xiph, >> Mozilla, Wikimedia, the FSF, and even On2 itself have recognized the need >> for free formats and fought hard to make it happen. Now it's your turn. >> We'll know if you do otherwise that your interest is not user freedom on >> the >> web, but Google's dominance. >> >> We all want you to do the right thing. Free VP8, and use it on YouTube! >> >> -- >> FOSS Nepal mailing list: [email protected] >> http://groups.google.com/group/foss-nepal >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] >> >> Mailing List Guidelines: >> http://wiki.fossnepal.org/index.php?title=Mailing_List_Guidelines >> Community website: http://www.fossnepal.org/ > > > -- > Mr. Abhudaya Sagar Kshetri (ASK?) > Url: www.sagarkshetri.com.np > email:[email protected] > > -- > FOSS Nepal mailing list: [email protected] > http://groups.google.com/group/foss-nepal > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > > Mailing List Guidelines: > http://wiki.fossnepal.org/index.php?title=Mailing_List_Guidelines > Community website: http://www.fossnepal.org/
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