Mozilla Donates $100K To the Ogg Project

LWATCDR writes "Mozilla has given the Wikimedia foundation $100,000 to fund Ogg development. The reason is simple: 'Open standards for audio and video are important because they can be used by anyone for any purpose without royalties, and can be inspected and improved by an open community. Today, video and audio on the web are dominated by proprietary technologies, most frequently patent-encumbered codecs wrapped into closed-source player widgets.' While Vorbis is a better standard than MP3, everything I have heard about Theora is that it is technically inferior to many other video codecs. I wonder if wouldn't be better to direct effort to Dirac, perhaps putting Dirac into an Ogg container. No mention was made of FLAC or Speex funding. If more media players supported Speex it would be an ideal codec for many podcasts and audio books. It really is too bad that these codecs so often get overlooked."

Comments

Re:More details on grants

[Red Flayer]

Anyway, where does one apply for more grants from the Mozilla foundation? Here are the grant amounts for 2007, see if you can read a subliminal message:

- mozdev.org: $10,000
- Parrot: $10,000
- Dojo Ajax toolkit: $70,000
- Jambu: $10,000
- NVDA: $90,000
- creatives commons: $100,000
- seneca college: $100,000
- Gnome: $10,000
- coreboot: $10,000

This subliminal message?

Mode vorpar doom dares, no reboot

I don't get it. Please explain.

Re:More details on grants

[Muad'Dave]

$100,000 USED to be serious money.

I stared and stared at this trying to figure out what the 'E' in USD stood for - US [Emergency] Dollars? US [Enron] Dollars?

Re:More details on grants

[Rogerborg]

Well, I guess the real lesson here is that no matter how much you choose to give away, and to whom, there will always be some smelly fucking hippy whining that you are evil cretins because you didn't give more to them.

Re:"Better" is relative...

[ichthus]

Also, the name sucks. Who wants to buy an "Ogg player"?

Or, "Hey, can you share your oggs on the network?"

How about, "Sting just released a new ogg album."

Stupid. Ogg.

Re:Go ahead - throw your money away

[Anonymous Coward]

A "programming geek" doesn't care what the rest of the world thinks. This is why he is superior to you.

This attitude is also why he can't get a date, and spends his Saturday nights alone in the basement playing World of Warcraft.

Re:More details on grants

[DreamsAreOkToo]

Anyway, where does one apply for more grants from the Mozilla foundation? Here are the grant amounts for 2007, see if you can read a subliminal message:

- mozev.org: $10,000

- Pardrot: $10,000

- Dojo Ajax toolkit: $70,000

- Jambu: $10,000

- NVDA: $90,000

- creatives commons: $100,000

- seneca college: $100,000

- Gnome: $10,000

- coreboot: $10,000

This subliminal message?

Mode vorpar doom dares, no reboot

I don't get it. Please explain.

No, no, you forgot to carry the 1.

Mordor reboots

Oh no, this is more serious than we thought!

Re:I thought Ogg was dead

[MindlessAutomata]

Since it looks like MP3 may expire in Dec 2012

If the prophecies hold true, my friend, we will all be expiring...

You need a car anology.

[coxymla]

Wow, that was strained and ugly.

It was strained an ugly because you didn't use a car analogy, silly!

MP3car and OGGcar both get you from A to B. OGGcar has more horsepower but a higher fuel consumption. The MP3car has better mileage AND a bigger fuel tank.

Since the actual constraint is the speed limit of the road, which both cars can easily maintain, then the MP3car wins on both economy and distance.

There, wasn't that better?

Re:More details on grants

[David Gerard]

Monty is that guy. The main problem Ogg Vorbis and Theora have had is that he doesn't scale.

Re:More details on grants

[mandelbr0t]

Actually, he doesn't smell as bad as you'd think.