Comment Re:H.264 (Score 1) 65
The MPL already allows the bundling of proprietary components, if Mozilla wanted to go down that route. But they don't - as the links you post show. Pay-on-the-door video standards are not good for the web.
Gerv
Comment Re:Hm.. its a mockup (Score 1) 159
Er, you can't cite your own comment in support of your comment. You need to provide a citation from Metalab that says they did report it privately first, and (preferably) a citation from Mozilla agreeing that this happened.
My understanding is that Metalab blogged without contacting Mozilla first.
Gerv
Comment Re:Hm.. its a mockup (Score 1) 159
They did (privately) report it to Mozilla first. The blog went up after Mozilla ignored them.
Citation needed.
Gerv
Comment Re:Nonsense (Score 1) 675
Yes it's licensed under the GPL, but not _exclusively_ under the GPL. You can choose your terms from the quoted list of three. So a company - Mozilla or any other - could choose "MPL", and then combine the Mozilla code with proprietary code, whether it implemented video codecs or did something else. The MPL patent language only applies to the code in the final product which is MPLed, and the GPL patent language wouldn't apply at all, because the company's original choice of terms from the three was MPL, not GPL. Netscape is an example of a company which did this, but there are many others who do it today.
Gerv
Comment Re:I'm sorry but this is pure bloat. (Score 1) 284
Lots of current Firefox features started life as addons. That's a normal way in the Firefox community to prototype something. Are you arguing that if a feature _could_ be implemented as an addon, it _should_ be? Because there's a whole bunch of stuff in the browser I'm sure you use regularly which _could_ be addons. But I bet it would annoy you to download Firefox and have to install 10 addons before it was usable.
Firefox 3.6 with Personas is faster in startup and rendering than Firefox 3.5 without them. If speed is your issue, you don't have an issue. If you don't like the feature, don't use it. It's not intrusive.
Gerv
Comment Re:Ministry of Truth (Score 1) 226
It's right in the founding documents: http://www.mozilla.org/foundation/documents/mf-ca-ct-registration.pdf
"The exempt purpose of the Foundation is to serve the general public by undertaking activities to (1) keep the Internet a universal platform that is accessible by anyone from anywhere, using any computer" (e.g. not just on Windows) "and (2) promote the continuation of innovation on the Internet". (page iii).
Gerv
Submission + - OpenStreetMap Sends UK Volunteer Mapper to Antigua (openstreetmap.org)
Gerv writes: "When Google launched their Map Maker community mapping tool last year, they included loads of Caribbean islands. This led Ed Parsons (chief Google Maps guy) to say that he was sad there wasn't any fieldwork involved. Well, now OpenStreetMap have gone one better — following a successful Pledgebank pledge, they have got together the money to send one randomly-chosen guy to Antigua for a week to work on the OpenStreetMap map!"
Has HavenCo's Data Haven Shut Down? 287
secmartin writes "HavenCo, the self-proclaimed data haven located on the micronation Sealand, appears to be offline. Their website is down, and there have been no announcements from either HavenCo or Sealand. HavenCo has been covered here before; it was mostly known for offering hosting of content that might be illegal in other countries. Does anyone have news about what happened to them?"
Comment Re:I'm amazed (Score 1) 857
Depends what you are saying. "Hocked" means pawned, although you would normally say "put X in hock". "Hawked", at least in UK English, means "sold".
Gerv
Submission + - Worldwide Firefox 3 Release Parties (mozillaparty.com)
Gerv writes: "The Mozilla project's Party Tool is now up and running, arrange Firefox 3 release/Mozilla 10th Anniversary parties all around the world at some point this month. The map shows parties in your area; if there isn't one, start one. :-) There are 255 at the moment; for Firefox 2 there were 648 parties with 5754 registered partygoers. So some way to go to beat that..."
Firefox's Market Share Hits 28% in Europe 254
Mitchell's Boy Toy writes "Firefox's market share has hit 28.0% in Europe as of December 2007, according to a French web metrics firm. That's a 20.7% increase from the beginning of 2007. 'Finland currently has the highest Firefox market share in Europe with 45.4 percent, followed by Slovenia with 44.6 percent and Poland with 42.4 percent.' IE share fell to just 66.1% in December, a 0.9 point loss in just a month. It should also be noted that Firefox's success could spell trouble for Opera's antitrust complaint: 'Firefox's continued success in Europe may undermine some of the arguments made by Norwegian browser maker Opera in an antitrust complaint filed against Microsoft in December of last year. Opera accused Microsoft of abusing its dominant position in the web browser market by tying Internet Explorer to Windows.'"
Intel Releases Several Projects to Help Save Power 83
GeekyBodhi writes "LessWatts.org is Intel's new website that hosts several power saving tools. As Linux.com reports, it also shares tips and tricks to help optimize power consumption on hardware from portable devices running on batteries to large data centers. 'LessWatts.org is not about marketing, trying to sell you something or comparing one vendor to another. LessWatts.org is about how you can save real watts, however you use Linux on your computer or computers.' As reported on Slashdot earlier, this isn't the first time Intel has tried to help Linux users cut their power bills. In May, the company launched the PowerTOP program that monitors individual processes to keep track of power consumption. The project comes at a time when more vendors are pre-installing Linux on handhelds and laptops." Linux.com and Slashdot are both owned by SourceForge.
Submission + - Iran Claims Launch of First Space Rocket
chris_bloke writes: "Iranian Students News Agency appears to be claiming that Iran has successfully launched its first space rocket. This claim is being reported in English by Radio Javan and now the Interational Herald Tribune. Sadly the Iranian Space Agency's English Language website is very much under construction and the News link doesn't work (and neither do most of the others)."
