A new letter has been posted to the Free Software Foundation (FSF) website, which is interesting and worth a read.
The full post:
Dear Google,
With your purchase of On2, you now own both the world's largest video site (YouTube) and all the patents behind a new high performance video codec -- VP8. Just think what you can achieve by releasing the VP8 codec under an irrevocable royalty-free ... [ read the full article ]
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As soon as I saw "offering users with obsolete browsers" I stopped reading. How any software foundation could be ok with outdated programs, ESPECIALLY a web browser, is beyond me.
Originally posted by Amak: As soon as I saw "offering users with obsolete browsers" I stopped reading. How any software foundation could be ok with outdated programs, ESPECIALLY a web browser, is beyond me.
They are probably refering to Chrome frame for IE6 that essentially uses IE6's window, but everything that is rendered is using Google Chrome.
IMO, accepatble hack/solution for those stuck with the browser their company's/school's tech support has decided (=IE6) -- it brings HTML5 support to those users and gets rid of the decade-old IE6 rendering engine.
I'm all about good, free alternatives for content delivery on the web but the incessant whining about Flash is boring and baseless. Flash has made and continues to make the internet better, period. It was asinine to not include it on both the iPhone and the iPad - they're lesser products for it.
