Linux Plumbers Talks - Strange Choice of Video Formats

Finally, the Linux Foundation put an option to download the videos encoded with Ogg Theora... underneath the ratings, the page sharing, and the Flash Player embed codes. I was embarrassed for the Plumbers Conference when, for a couple days, the videos strictly required Flash Player to view or some other way to decode Flash Video. Adobe has only an test-version of Flash Player for 64-bit systems and many embedded systems have no Flash Player available, so Flash Video seems to be a strange choice to convey information to other kernel developers.

Even with links to download videos encoded with Ogg Theora, I still wish there was a more focused effort by the Linux Foundation to use open standards, especially as they are the self-proclaimed "spokesperson for Linux". HTML5 Video is a well published standard, with commonly known failbacks options even including a Flash Video failback. Even the file extension of the download links show a lack of interest of use open standards, the Xiph.org Foundation has been encouraging the use of *.OGV file extensions for Ogg files containing video.

I suppose it is "looking a gift-horse in the mouth" because it is advantageous to have anyone fund the distribution of these presentations, but I would expect more than the typical Flash Video norm from an organization that defines itself as resolving same compatibility issues.