Re: [whatwg] Xiph.Org Statement Regarding the HTML5 Draft and the Ogg Codec Set

2007-12-14 Thread Joseph Daniel Zukiger
[...] One minor point of clarification; Despite the MPEG proponents' claims that MPEG-licensed codecs protect against liability... I don't think anyone has said this. What we have said is that we have already assessed the risk/benefit/cost of these codecs and decided the benefit is

Re: [whatwg] Xiph.Org Statement Regarding the HTML5 Draft and the Ogg Codec Set

2007-12-13 Thread Maciej Stachowiak
On Dec 13, 2007, at 2:13 AM, Christopher Monty Montgomery wrote: As our intent is not to suprise anyone (especially not the working group), I'm attaching a copy of the press statement we've prepared in response to the ongoing Ogg-in-HTML5 brouhaha. An HTML version of the same release is now

Re: [whatwg] Xiph.Org Statement Regarding the HTML5 Draft and the Ogg Codec Set

2007-12-13 Thread Sanghyeon Seo
2007/12/13, Maciej Stachowiak [EMAIL PROTECTED]: It's unfortunate that this press release conflates Ogg, Vorbis and Theora. They do not have equivalent deployment, testing and review status (or for that matter technical quality), and this is already a widespread point of confusion. If the

Re: [whatwg] Xiph.Org Statement Regarding the HTML5 Draft and the Ogg Codec Set

2007-12-13 Thread Ian Hickson
On Thu, 13 Dec 2007, Sanghyeon Seo wrote: 2007/12/13, Maciej Stachowiak [EMAIL PROTECTED]: It's unfortunate that this press release conflates Ogg, Vorbis and Theora. They do not have equivalent deployment, testing and review status (or for that matter technical quality), and this is already