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Firefox to support Theora video

Firefox to support Theora video

Posted Aug 15, 2008 1:21 UTC (Fri) by dmag (subscriber, #17775)
In reply to: Firefox to support Theora video by wmf
Parent article: Firefox to support Theora video

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. 
 


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