On Dec 12, 2007, at 6:23 AM, David Gerard wrote:
FWIW, Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons only allow unencumbered formats
on the site. Video MUST be Ogg Theora. Compressed audio better be Ogg.
wikipedia.org is something like #8 in the world at present, so this is
set to be a significant content repository actually used by people. A
video tag which can be relied upon to support the format in at least
Firefox would be enormously helpful to us and our readers.
So far we have had zero patent trolls come calling. I wonder why
that is.
Because the Wikimedia Foundation doesn't have much money. Patent
trolls are opportunistic, not idealistic.
-ryan
