Ars Thinks Google Takes a Step Backwards For Openness

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday January 13, 2011 @02:28AM from the logic-has-many-letters dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Over at Ars Technica, Peter (not so) Bright gives a long-winded four pages of FUD about how Chrome dropping support for H.264 is a slight against openness. 'The promise of HTML5's video tag was a simple one: to allow web pages to contain embedded video without the need for plugins. With the decision to remove support for the widespread H.264 codec from future versions of Chrome, Google has undermined this widely-anticipated feature. The company is claiming that it wants to support "open codecs" instead, and so from now on will support only two formats: its own WebM codec, and Theora. ... The reason Google has given for this change is that WebM (which pairs VP8 video with Vorbis audio) and Theora are "open codecs" and H.264 apparently isn't. ... H.264 is unambiguously open.'"

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I'm glad Mods can't mod (-1) Censored by theaveng · 2011-01-13 02:42 · Score: -1, Offtopic

I'm glad Mods can't give summaries or the arstechnica.com website a (-1) Troll like they did to my posts (yesterday) saying I disagree with removing MPEG4 from Chrome.
They probably would mod Ars Technica (-1) censored if they could get away with it, simply because Ars opposes Google's decision.

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Re:Summary sucks. by Vectormatic · 2011-01-13 02:54 · Score: 0, Offtopic

i agree, for me this is a new low in /. editing
FUCK you taco!

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