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Submission + - Free Software Foundation urge Google to free VP8 (fsf.org)

Submitted by jamesswift on Monday February 22, 2010 @03:02AM

jamesswift writes: The FSF have written an open letter to Google urging them to free the VP8 codec with an irrevocable royalty-free licence.

"With its purchase of the On2 video compression technology company having been completed on Wednesday February 16, 2010, Google now has the opportunity to make free video formats the standard, freeing the web from both Flash and the proprietary H.264 codec."

Submission + - A history of media technology scares (slate.com)

Submitted by jamesswift on Tuesday February 16, 2010 @09:01AM

jamesswift writes: Vaughan Bell at Slate has written an interesting article on the centuries old phenomenon of hysterical suspicion of new media and the technologies than enable them.
The best line comes near then end "The writer Douglas Adams observed how technology that existed when we were born seems normal, anything that is developed before we turn 35 is exciting, and whatever comes after that is treated with suspicion."

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