Time for Mozilla to face reality and pay up the license as Apple and Google have done.
Except the problem is how do you keep the users from redistrubting the code that has how to decode a h264 file? and the users they give it to, and so on? Good luck getting a license from MPEG-LA that grants everyone a license to use it. Also, is Chrome(not chromium) available for linux distros other than debian/ubuntu/redhat/SUSE? slackware? gentoo? LFS? and host of others, see distro watch, because Chromium does not have support for the html5/h264 youtube.
Ironically enough: ALL of those will be using ffmpeg. They will just dress it
up differently can call it by a different name. But yeah, using the mime and
plug-in interface that has existed in mozilla since the beginning of time does
seem an obvious way to approach this "problem".
Firefox can only use codecs that are not covered by restrictive licensing, no matter how good it looks
Nonsense. Firefox can use any codec that is already installed on the user's system. It's only because they have decided that they should try to force Theora on people that they are rejecting that solution.
The iPhone launched in the UK as exclusive to the O2 network. In the last few months it's become available on two of the other four biggest networks Vodafone and Orange (who have announced that they will merge with the other big four, T-Mobile). The pricing and plan are practically identical.
So buy a second hand phone on ebay, unlock it and stick a PAYG SIM in it (or whatever contract works for you)...
And push the license fees down to the users? Is that what you really want?
getting mad, are we? personal attacks are a sign of desperation from people who have difficulties articulating their thoughts. i suppose it's clear why you hid your name now.
now back to the topic. the scholarly debate is over whether the famine was intentional or not. that in turn determines whether it was genocide at all. this i got from the wikipedia link you gave me, so i hope you can see the irony in the fact that you -- as the kids say -- pwnt yourself.
as i said before, lul
interlard - vt., to intersperse; diversify -- Webster's New World Dictionary Of The American Language