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Why are you so sure?

Posted Jul 7, 2009 0:55 UTC (Tue) by khim (subscriber, #9252)
In reply to: Unfortunatelly this argument does not fly by bojan
Parent article: Ogg codecs dropped from HTML5

If that wasn't a possibility, they would still get invented just fine.

As patentable hardware solution, perhaps? Sure if the history went this way free software we'd all used some form of hardware video/audio encoders today (with analog and digital parts). Whole different world... Better then current one? I'm not so sure...


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Why are you so sure?

Posted Jul 7, 2009 13:20 UTC (Tue) by job (guest, #670) [Link]

Fine by me, as long as I am free to build my own decoder in software.

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