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The FSF's open letter to GoogleThe FSF's open letter to Google
[Announcements] Posted Feb 22, 2010 23:27 UTC (Mon) by corbet
The Free Software Foundation has laid down a challenge to Google in the form of an open letter. "With your purchase of On2, you now own both the world's largest video site (YouTube) and all the patents behind a new high performance video codec -- VP8. Just think what you can achieve by releasing the VP8 codec under an irrevocable royalty-free license and pushing it out to users on YouTube? You can end the web's dependence on patent-encumbered video formats and proprietary software (Flash)."
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