December 12, 2007: Xiph.Org Statement Regarding the HTML5 Draft and the Ogg
Codec Set
,----[ Quote ]
| Ogg provides a baseline of fully unencumbered, fully open, fully documented,
| fully royalty-free codecs that are lighter-weight than the contemporary
| encumbered solutions while offering comparable or superior performance. Ogg
| is not fantasy or vapourware. It is widely deployed, tested, and reviewed.
| Ogg has already stood the test of time.
|
| [...]
|
| In the interest of interoperability and to prevent large vendor lock-in to
| proprietary methods, we support the W3C's desire to adopt the unencumbered
| technology as the baseline.
`----
http://xiph.org/press/2007/w3c/
Strategies for a discontinuous future.
Attention Economy, Micromedia & Media 2.0, Peer Production, Network Economics &
Web 2.0, and Edge Competencies.
,----[ Quote ]
| Let me put it more simply: The Fed is treating this like it's a liquidity
| crisis. But it's not: the macropocalypse is a deeper problem. Liquidity is
| drying because the firm is rotting from the very core: the larger economic
| system is rife with adverse selection, moral hazard, and assorted other
| flavours of evil.
|
| I pointed it out for media a long time ago (ie, my new econ of music paper).
| But it's just as true for banks. So throwing liquidity at rotten institution
| is perverse because it destroys the incentives for reform.
|
| Imagine if we threw money at record labels, in the hopes that they'd publish
| better music. What do you think would happen?
`----
http://www.bubblegeneration.com/2007/12/first-horseman-of-macropocalypse.cfm
Recent:
Nokia to W3C: Ogg is proprietary, we need DRM on the Web
,----[ Quote ]
| But remember, that's not what Nokia is objecting to: they are arguing that
| Ogg is proprietary (it isn't) and that DRM should be part of a Web standard
| (it shouldn't).
`----
http://www.boingboing.net/2007/12/09/nokia-to-w3c-ogg-is.html
Removal of Ogg Vorbis and Theora from HTML5: an outrageous disaster
,----[ Quote ]
| Note that HTML5 in no way required Ogg (as denoted by the word “should”
| instead of “must” in the earlier draft). Adding this to the fact that there
| are widely available patent-free implementations of Ogg technology, there is
| really no excuse for Apple and Nokia to say that they couldn’t in good faith
| implement HTML5 as previously formulated. Throw your own theory here: DRM,
| proprietary control, et cetera.
`----
http://rudd-o.com/archives/2007/12/11/removal-of-ogg-vorbis-and-theora-from-html5-an-outrageous-disaster/
http://tinyurl.com/yp5zm6
Is Nokia Looking for Revenue in the Wrong Places?
,----[ Quote ]
| He proposed that iPod and iTunes was an exception, and would be eclipsed by a
| Nokia/Microsoft (MSFT) partnership in short order.
|
| [...]
|
| That conversation echoes the one that nearly every music player manufacturer
| on the planet has had to date. And Microsoft's DRM and poor business
| decisions has managed to undermine the business of every single one of them,
| especially now that Microsoft's Zune competes with them and yet isn't
| compatible with Microsoft's own PlaysForSure music software.
`----
http://seekingalpha.com/article/56822-is-nokia-looking-for-revenue-in-the-wrong-places?source=yahoo
|
|