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Free media and free software help keep you free to run your life
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| Dave Cross encourages the dependence upon proprietary software by complaining
| that the Free Software Foundation’s recent 25th birthday video should have
| been distributed in non-free formats so people could see the video.
|
| A surface analysis would reveal that proprietors support their own video
| formats exclusively. A deeper more significant analysis would reveal what
| users are left with after installing free and non-free software.
|
| [...]
|
| In other words, running proprietary software doesn’t result in the creation
| of more software freedom. When we run more proprietary software we start to
| think of the proprietor’s interests as an acceptable state of affairs no
| matter how much the proprietor restricts our work using our computers. We
| might even defend their onesidedness which leaves us dependent on their
| software and with no media to share. When we put in the work to fight for our
| software freedom we’re left with software that respects our freedom to share,
| modify, and use.
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http://www.digitalcitizen.info/2008/09/07/free-media-and-free-software-help-keep-you-free-to-run-your-life/
Related:
To: W3C
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| This letter is the result of Nokia and Apple recent activity in order
| to change the default audio/video codecs from Ogg/Theora+Vorbis [1],[2]
| to H.264/AAC [3],[4] in the future HTML5 standard.
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http://www.petitiononline.com/lortow3/petition.html
Nokia to W3C: Ogg is proprietary, we need DRM on the Web
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| 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).
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http://www.boingboing.net/2007/12/09/nokia-to-w3c-ogg-is.html
Nokia to put Microsoft PlayReady onto S60 & S40 cellphone platforms
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| Nokia is to support Microsoft's PlayReady content access technology into the
| Nokia S60 and Series 40 mobile device platforms, starting in 2008.
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http://www.itwire.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=13884&Itemid=1055
Mozilla, Opera look to make video on the Web easier
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| Firefox and Opera will support a new HTML tag specifically for embedding
| video in Web pages. As long as the browsers support a video's specific codec,
| or encoding method, the browsers will then be able to play the video without
| launching third-party enabling software, said Chris Double, a Mozilla
| engineer. Mozilla and Opera are also working to support the royalty-free
| video codec Ogg Theora.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/infoworld/20071207/tc_infoworld/93898
Does your browser do video?
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| One of the many great features it sports, which will be of interest to free
| formats enthusiastics, is the multimedia elements: <video> and <audio>.
| Imagine being able to post video and audio in your blog as easily as you do
| with images. On forums, on online shops, on office intranets, on anything. It
| really has the potentional to revolutionize the Web. No more Flash, no more
| YouTube. Independence! And all of this using Vorbis and Theora as the
| baseline codecs!
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http://spreadopenmedia.org/2007/11/18/does-your-browser-do-video/
Opera Browser and Ogg Theora in HTML5 specs
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| This is an interview I made with the Opera CTO Hakon Wium Lie at the
| Reboot 9.0 Web 2.0 conference in Copenhagen. He shows the OLPC XO beta-1 in
| the direct sunlight and explains several things about the Opera browser
| software running smoothly on it...
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http://olpc.tv/2007/06/01/opera-browser-and-ogg-theora-in-html5-specs/
Beta version of Open-Source video codec Ogg Theora released
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| The source code of the libtheora 1.0 Beta 1 codec library can be downloaded
| from the developer website.
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http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/96667/from/rss09
http://spreadopenmedia.org/
How To Live an Open-Source Musical Life With Ogg Vorbis
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| But with the launch of the FSF's web campaign, the time may be ripe
| for Ogg Vorbis to truly shine. According to Chris "Monty" Montgomery,
| creator of Ogg and founder of the Xiph.org Foundation which oversees
| Ogg's development, such big-name backing has been a long time
| coming.
|
| ... Linux users most likely have Ogg support built in to their machines
| (but you guys already knew that).
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http://www.wired.com/software/coolapps/news/2007/05/playogg
'Play OGG': FSF launches free audio format campaign
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| The Free Software
| Foundation (FSF) today launched PlayOGG.org, a campaign to encourage
| use of the patent- and license-free standard OGG Vorbis as an
| ethically, legally and technically superior audio alternative to
| the proprietary MP3 format.
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http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-fsf/2007-05/msg00001.html
http://www.osnews.com/story.php/17860/Review-The-OGG-Compatible-iRiver-E10
Ogg Vorbis Gaining Industry Support
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| While Ogg Vorbis format has not gained much adoption in music
| sales and portable players, it is not an unsupported format in
| the industry. Toy manufacturers (e.g. speaking dolls), voice
| warning systems, and reactive audio devices exploit Ogg Vorbis
| for its good quality at small bit-rates.
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http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/06/1931244&from=rss
Alcatel-Lucent says $1.5 billion not enough from Microsoft
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| Alcatel-Lucent said in a court filing that $1.5 billion is not
| enough to properly compensate it for Microsoft Corp.'s infringement
| of two digital audio patents.
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http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/alcatel-lucent-says-15-billion-not/story.aspx?guid=%7B3B7D3262%2DF68F%2D4BEC%2D94C1%2D5C0A0EEE8021%7D&siteid=yhoof
http://tinyurl.com/36hu5v
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