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Media Advisory: Controversial Free-Software Activist to Speak at UB
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| Richard Stallman, founder of the GNU Project and the Free Software
| Foundation and one of the most controversial figures in the history
| of the Internet, will discuss "Copyright and Community in the Age of
| Computer Networks" on Feb. 22 at 6 p.m. in 112 Norton Hall on
| the University at Buffalo's North Campus.
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http://www.buffalo.edu/news/10988
Open letter to Google: free VP8, and use it on YouTube
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| With its purchase of the On2 video compression technology company
| having been completed on Wednesday February 16, 2010, Google now
| has the opportunity to make free video formats the standard, freeing
| the web from both Flash and the proprietary H.264 codec.
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http://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/google-free-on2-vp8-for-youtube
Older blog entries for dwmw2
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| To me, HTML5 looks less like a standard
| and more like a set of broken hackish
| kludges to work around the fact that
| people out there aren't actually capable
| of following a standard.
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http://www.advogato.org/person/dwmw2/diary.html?start=214
Risks in Google killing Adobe Flash
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| My son loves The Daily Show, but for some
| reason he canât load Adobe Flash 10 on his
| Windows PC. It claims to load, but then
| Windows tells him itâs not there. (I tried
| âswitch to Linux.â It just re-opened the
| Generation Gap.)
|
| [...]
|
| Google could solve his problem in a flash,
| the Free Software Foundation says. Just
| switch from supporting Flash to the VP8
| codec recently acquired with ON
| Technologies on YouTube.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=5910
Let My Codecs Go: Will Google Free VP8?
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| The good news is that if anyone has the
| resources to sort out the legal and
| technical problems, Google has. The reason
| why it might want to go to all that
| trouble is to free itself from any
| dependence on the patent-encumbered codecs
| of others, and to promote a flourishing
| open video ecosystem, and with it lots of
| lovely content that it can sell ads
| against.
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http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?blogid=14&entryid=2803
Free Software Foundation urges Google to open On2 codec
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| We question whether yet another plug-in is
| the best of ideas, but the post has other
| ideas. "You could interest users with HD
| videos in free formats, for example, or
| aggressively invite users to upgrade their
| browsers (instead of upgrading Flash).
| Steps like these on YouTube would quickly
| push browser support for free formats to
| 50% and beyond, and they would slowly
| increase the number of people who never
| bother installing Flash."
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/02/22/fsf_on_google_and_video_codecs/
Recent:
Vote for HTML5 open video (WE DID IT!)
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| WE DID IT! Thanks everyone!!!
|
| http://productideas.appspot.com/#8/e=3d60a
|
| Official response:
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| We've heard a lot of feedback around
| supporting HTML5 and are working hard to
| meet your request, so stay tuned. We'll
| be following up when we have more
| information. We're answering this idea
| now because there are so many similar
| HTML5 ideas and we want to give other
| ideas a chance to be seen.
|
| [...]
|
| YouTube Team
|
| Party time!
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https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-news-team/2010-January/000838.html
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