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Rob Beard wrote: > > It looks like Mozilla is to include native support for Theora video in > Firefox 3.1 .... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML_5#Ogg_controversy I don't believe Apple and Nokia are acting in good faith. Nokia specifically states they only want video formats that supports DRM, so that properly free and open standards are just not acceptable to Nokia?! Apple's position is less clear. They seem just to want to make life hard for people who don't use iTunes, and Apple's preferred formats. The idea that they are scared of submarine patents is silly, as they already redistribute software that handles OGG formats on the Apple website, so they are presumably liable to the same extent if there are submarine patents affecting OGG. Indeed not charging for the OGG component limits their liability to pretty much zero (they don't charge for Safari for Windows for example). The insanity of committee thinking. Hopefully when Firefox and Opera "just work" with OGG, others will catch up, or their users will just install VLC (or GNU/Linux). -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html