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What I find funny is that half the Internet was complaining when Google announced to support H.264 in the first place when, clearly, supporting nothing but open
by pilif 16y ago
What I find funny is that half the Internet was complaining when Google announced to support H.264 in the first place when, clearly, supporting nothing but open formats was the right way to go (see Mozilla's decision to only support theora)
And now that Google is removing H.264 support again, half the Internet is, again, up in arms about the decision, using the same arguments as before.
Well, I guess this time it's the half of the Internet that wasnt complaining last time :-)
- pornel 16y agoThere was no WebM back then. The only alternative was Ogg Theora (even before 1.1 improvements IIRC), which Google didn't consider as suitable alternative. Google doesn't have RMS's consistency on the matter. They balance practicality with idealism.