On Mon, 2009-06-08 at 17:30 -0400, Gregory Maxwell wrote: > 2009/6/8 Kelly Miller <lightsolphoenix@xxxxxxxxx>: > > Thanks to Apple, that isn't going to be happening. Apple's pushing for the > > required default video codec to be the aforementioned nonfree MPEG4/H.264 > > codec, and they don't seem to care whether it can be shipped by anybody > > else. > > Perhaps pedantry but for the sake of accuracy: > > Some of the patent holders in the MPEG-LA patent pool (Apple and > Nokia) pushed hard for there to be no royalty-free baseline > recommended in the standard. I'm not aware of anyone, Apple included, > pushing for H.264 in the standard since the adoption of an encumbered > format as formal formal default is simply a complete non-starter. I'm sick of Apple and Nokia's bullcrap about OGG being encumbered and constantly fighting against it. I think it's a clear sign that OGG is better and the they (Apple particularly) don't want people knowing that they don't have to be locked into Apple's mini-monopoly. So, after having given so much to Apple and Nokia (you can mount a very sound argument that without OSS, Apple would be a backwater stuck with OS9) why aren't we making noise about it being time that Apple and Nokia give a little back. I for one am sick of knowing we enabled them, but in a way that they seem to feel it's fine to lock us out. R. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
