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Submission + - 80% of Daily YouTube Videos Now in WebM (osnews.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 12, 2010 @08:53PM

An anonymous reader writes: OSNews has an update on the WebM project from a presentation given by Google's John Luther and Matt Frost at the Streaming Media West conference. OSNews writes, 'Earlier this year, Google finally did what many of us hoped it would do: release the VP8 codec as open source. It became part of the WebM project, which combines VP8 video with Vorbis audio in a Matroshka container. The product manager for the WebM project, John Luther, gave an update on the status of the project — and it's doing great.'

Submission + - The Term 'World Wide Web' is 20 Years Old Today (motherboard.tv)

Submitted by MMBK on Friday November 12, 2010 @04:43PM

MMBK writes: Before November 12, 1990, there was no WWW. But as fate would have it, on this date twenty years ago, Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau published a document called WorldWideWeb: Proposal for a HyperText Project coining the term and basic operations of the Web as we know it today.

Submission + - Can RHEL Break Open Source's 'Low-Cost Ceiling'? (infoworld.com)

Submitted by

snydeq

on Friday November 12, 2010 @03:15PM

snydeq writes: "InfoWorld's Savio Rodrigues views Red Hat's notable marketing shift from low cost to high value as an 'important shift in the ongoing evolution of open source software vendors' business models.' Long left in the low-cost ghetto of enterprise IT mind share, RHEL is being pushed for its technical innovations, performance enhancements, and customer-requested improvements, rather than as a solution for cash-strapped shops. This shift, and the underlying improvements to RHEL 6.0, give Red Hat a legitimate shot against Microsoft, and open source a new model for competing with proprietary products. After all, focusing on low cost unnecessary limits the growth of open source business, creating a 'low-cost ceiling' that indirectly dissuades many IT shops from considering open source products."

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