Re: [whatwg] Reasons for moving Ogg to MUST status (was Re: HTML 5, OGG, competition, civil rights, and persons with disabilities)

2007-12-15 Thread David Gerard
On 13/12/2007, Andrew Sidwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Manuel Amador (Rudd-O) wrote: > > This is not the year 2000. Mozilla and Opera are embedding Theora video. > > That's a user base large enough to force the rest of the players to get with > > the program. > I very much doubt it. IE at le

Re: [whatwg] Reasons for moving Ogg to MUST status (was Re: HTML 5, OGG, competition, civil rights, and persons with disabilities)

2007-12-15 Thread Andrew Sidwell
Manuel Amador (Rudd-O) wrote: That's not unreasonable, but you have yet to give a solid technical reason for reverting to the old text, Reasons to put the Ogg tech suite back on the spec: - it's Free (who here hates beer or freedom?) This is a false dichotomy. (You characterise that if you

[whatwg] Reasons for moving Ogg to MUST status (was Re: HTML 5, OGG, competition, civil rights, and persons with disabilities)

2007-12-11 Thread Manuel Amador (Rudd-O)
> That's not unreasonable, but you have yet to give a solid technical > reason for reverting to the old text, Reasons to put the Ogg tech suite back on the spec: - it's Free (who here hates beer or freedom?) - it's patent-unencumbered (this is a FACT) - it's technically very good (Theora) or even