> I'm reading it from my devilishly closed iPad and I can't watch the video because it's in a format incompatible with the devices many people use to surf the i

> I'm reading it from my devilishly closed iPad and I can't watch the video because it's in a format incompatible with the devices many people use to surf the internet everyday Are you sure you're not mixing roles here ? Ogg Vorbis has been supported by Firefox, Chrome and Opera for at least 5 years. Who doesn't play it ? Microsoft browsers and Apple browsers, the latter explicitely discouraging [0] its inclusion as a lowest-common codec in the HTML5 spec. Heck, the most widespread video format on the web is Flash and Apple is notoriously known for not supporting Flash natively on their mobile. Don't you think Apple is to blame for this more than the websites ? > irrelevance The fact alone that you can't play the video because of your browser shows that the free software fight still is relevant. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Use_of_Ogg_formats_in_HTML5#Support https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Use_of_Ogg_formats_in_HTML5#Su...