"We're Linux" video contest kicks off

Or moonlight ;) The Obama inagural speech was done with it!

Chasing after every closed format is not the solution here. Reverse-engineering may have legal protections in some countries, but even those protections are not ironclad. Building a free software framework, based on reverse-engineering, is building a house on an unstable foundation. The framework may support itself for a short while, and it is a great benefit when you need it, but it is not a long-term solution. Reverse-engineering software functionality risks patent-holder litigation and claims of contaminated code.

Kudos to the Gnash and swfdec programmers, who, I believe, are compelling Adobe to slowly open their Flash technology. But what we ultimately want, for the online ecosystem, is a community-organized video framework, which is not beholden to only one corporate organization. We want a framework that works for everyone. Video is becoming the primary way we all communicate online, and it is vital it remains an open and freely distributable technology.