Well worth reading the follow ups and discussions. This has been like a geek version of The West Wing.
Bottom line is you can't adopt anything that requires royalties for the web. You just can't. From then on it's just politics and "arguing on the internet".
It's also a real travesty that the furore over video has eclipsed the unarguable case for Vorbis as the default audio codec.
The next big move for Theora fans (apart from the more obvious: lots and lots of compelling Theora content) is getting Xiph Quicktime Components installed on the 3/4 of Macs that don't use Firefox. Maybe they want to hook up with the Perian guys? I wonder what their install rate is?
Bottom line is you can't adopt anything that requires royalties for the web. You just can't. From then on it's just politics and "arguing on the internet".
It's also a real travesty that the furore over video has eclipsed the unarguable case for Vorbis as the default audio codec.
The next big move for Theora fans (apart from the more obvious: lots and lots of compelling Theora content) is getting Xiph Quicktime Components installed on the 3/4 of Macs that don't use Firefox. Maybe they want to hook up with the Perian guys? I wonder what their install rate is?