BOFH
12-11-2007, 05:33 AM
I know people from Nokia or close to Nokia read this site so I think this is a good place to voice viewpoint on this topic....
The World Wide Web Consortium, or W3C, a group devoted to publishing web standards, recently moved to approve the Ogg video and audio formats for inclusion into the forthcoming HTML5 standard. Nokia, maker of mobile phones and mobile multimedia services, has taken exception to this proposal, writing a position paper (PDF) and raising a formal issue at the W3's web site, claiming that Ogg support should be "deleted" from the spec in order to "avoid any patent issues."
Most people, if they recognize Ogg at all, would consider it to be an open-source counterpart to proprietary multimedia technology, so what exactly is going on here?
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20071210-nokia-wants-w3c-to-remove-out-ogg-from-upcoming-html5-standard.html
http://www.boingboing.net/2007/12/09/nokia-to-w3c-ogg-is.html
http://www.w3.org/2007/08/video/positions/Nokia.pdf
The World Wide Web Consortium, or W3C, a group devoted to publishing web standards, recently moved to approve the Ogg video and audio formats for inclusion into the forthcoming HTML5 standard. Nokia, maker of mobile phones and mobile multimedia services, has taken exception to this proposal, writing a position paper (PDF) and raising a formal issue at the W3's web site, claiming that Ogg support should be "deleted" from the spec in order to "avoid any patent issues."
Most people, if they recognize Ogg at all, would consider it to be an open-source counterpart to proprietary multimedia technology, so what exactly is going on here?
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20071210-nokia-wants-w3c-to-remove-out-ogg-from-upcoming-html5-standard.html
http://www.boingboing.net/2007/12/09/nokia-to-w3c-ogg-is.html
http://www.w3.org/2007/08/video/positions/Nokia.pdf