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Ah, but that means they were better in some way relevant to business needs, and good enough elsewhere. Theora is better in terms of cost, but that apparently i
by tvon 17y ago
Ah, but that means they were better in some way relevant to business needs, and good enough elsewhere.
Theora is better in terms of cost, but that apparently isn't enough of an advantage to counter the technical shortcomings.
- whopa 17y agoNo, they were not better than the closed source alternatives for most businesses. They were cheaper. Cheaper trumps better often. Cheaper drove adoption.
- tvon 17y agoI'm defining "cheaper" as one of many factors that go into deciding if one thing is better than another, I'm not speaking purely from a technical/feature standpoint.