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What makes you think the world (outside HN) cares about the openness of video player they use?
by rimantas 16y ago
What makes you think the world (outside HN) cares about the openness of video player they use?
- ashearer 16y agoI'll throw that back at you. What makes you think I think that, or that it somehow affects what I said? Regular people don't care, nor do they need to. Browser makers (Apple, Google, Mozilla) and content publishers (YouTube, BBC) care intensely, and are driving the entire controversy. All have a significant financial stake. Sufficiently large content publishers like Google/YouTube and the BBC have been motivated enough to invest heavily in open source codecs themselves. Supporters and detractors of Flash are fanning the flames.
- rimantas 16y agoGoogle owns WebM. Just something to consider.
- ashearer 16y agoGoogle bought it in order to irrevocably release it as a free standard, and now it's baked into hardware where they can't change it further. That's less of a good way to exercise control over the video standard at everyone else's expense while reaping profit from them, and more of a good way to prevent anyone else from doing so. Are you suggesting something else?