Firefox to support Theora video [LWN.net]

Firefox to support Theora video

Posted Aug 14, 2008 15:59 UTC (Thu) by wmf (guest, #33791)
Parent article: Firefox to support Theora video

I'm sure this will be controversial, but Mozilla *is* able to pay per-copy codec royalties;
after all, they have tens of millions of dollars per year in revenue. They choose not to use
technically superior industry-standard codecs to encourage royalty-free standards.

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Firefox to support Theora video

Posted Aug 15, 2008 1:21 UTC (Fri) by dmag (subscriber, #17775) [Link]

Hmm, I have two problems with that statement. 
 
First, it's not clear that Mozilla has enough money pull this off. 
Someone should calculate the $/download that they have today. (or is it 
downloads per dollar?)  And there's the little question of what happens 
if they run low on funds: Stop distributing mozilla or rip out the video? 
 
Second, you assume those funds wouldn't do anything useful otherwise. I'd 
rather they fund people to hack on mozilla and/or find a replacement for 
proprietary formats.