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Nokia Claims Ogg Format is "Proprietary"
a nona maus writes "Several months ago a workgroup of the W3C decided to include Ogg/Theora+Vorbis as the recommended baseline video codec standard for HTML5, against Apple's aggressive protest. Now, Nokia seems to be seeking a reversal of that decision: they have released a position paper calling Ogg 'proprietary' and citing the importance of DRM support. Nokia has historically responded to questions about Ogg on their internet tablets with strange and inconsistent answers, along with hand waving about their legal department. This latest step is enough to really make you wonder what they are really up to."
In other news Microsoft is making claim that odt is proprietary.
Help Me! I'm trapped in the tubes! Oh noes! Here comes a internet!
You had any??
(1) choose open standard/software
(2) have your lawyers claim it as your own
(3) profit!
Unless you're SCO...
You can have my SIG when you pry it from my cold, dead hands.
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You know, there is a difference between trolling and pointing out the flaws in your reasoning. Just saying.
Their first what?
The suspense is killing me.
Bring back Sirius Punk!
If they MUST have DRM, I have a great win-win solution for them.
They should encode their increadibly valuable content by moving it to the /dev/null 'encoder'. That way, nobody will ever be able to view even a split second of their content without paying and everyone else can be sure that they won't get ripped off with content that won't actually play properly where and when they want it to.
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Dear Nokia:
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
Bring back Sirius Punk!
Why would I bother downloading anything from their servers then? I have access to the /dev/null server even when my network is down.
It's also the only compression method that, when compressing RIAA material, actually improves the quality of the recording!
=Smidge=
Just the other day I was compressing Simon and Garfunkel's "The Sounds of Silence" to /dev/null, and it came back much truer to the name than the original.
So /dev/null converted your copy of Sounds of Silence to the acoustic version? Cool.
Time makes more converts than reason
I just downloaded Microsoft's /dev/null decoder, and it's 8 gigs...
It's not what your Sig can do for you, but what you can do for your for your Sig.
The engineer's mantra: Spy sapping my sentry!
I don't care. I've never seen a .vorbis file. All I've ever seen is a .ogg file, .ogg files contain music that plays well on my computer, but unlike .mp3-files, not so well on my mp3-player.
Look, if you can't handle that 99% of the world just doesn't care about containers and codecs, but use the file extension to determine media format, you are seriously lacking in social intelligence, and need to be confined to live in solitude for the rest of your life. May I suggest a career in computers?
I see Nokia is just another corporation wanting to spike your life with their digital AIDS. No chance in hell of me buying anything from them. I hope they rot and die, like Microsoft and Apple.
I was about to say 13256278887989457651018865901401704640, but it appears this number is private property.
Their first ".", which is surprising as MP3 is already 16 years old- but I guess everyone is different.
We at slashdot are scientists, specialists and kernel hackers. Your FUD will be found out.
I tries it with 4'33" by John Cage and I can report that it sounded identical to the original.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
You guys are such sheep. I don't follow the norm, I listen to /dev/random.
I wrote my first program at the age of six, and I still can't work out how this website works.
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