[whatwg] Removal of Ogg Vorbis and Theora

2007-12-11 Thread Franklin Marmon
For what it is worth I also feel this flies in the face of what is best for the online community. Open standards benefit all those who use them, and because they are open the community using them frequently improves them over time at little cost to the end users. Concerns over DRM compliance

Re: [whatwg] Removal of Ogg Vorbis and Theora

2007-12-11 Thread John Saylor
hey let me add my voice to this. having the mention of ogg in the spec is *beneficial* to [wired] humanity. look what open standards have gotten us [the flowering of culture and intelligence on the web]. is this just another manifestation of our ooxml future ... ? i hope not. -- \js

[whatwg] Removal of Ogg Vorbis and Theora

2007-12-11 Thread Jérôme Marchand
Please, anybody, tell me it's not true.Ogg Vorbis/Theora is perfect for web applications. We need to suport those. Is there anybody else than me that realise it cost 0.75$ US to of patents licensing LEGALLY have an MP3 decoder? I devellop for embedded applications, and it cost 15000$ Just to sh