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A comment on Free Software Foundation statement on WebM and VP8.

Re:Free Software Foundation statement on WebM and VP8 by zokier on Friday May 21, 2010 @12:48AM (#1366413)
One thing I have been wondering is how will xiph.org guys react? Developing Theora much further seems bit useless now. Will they begin developing VP8 or maybe specialize Theora for something different that web video. Theora has the advantage of being bit lighter on resources.
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Re:Free Software Foundation statement on WebM and VP8 by ZeroGravitas on Friday May 21, 2010 @03:31AM (#1366695)
They're very happy:

I, FOR ONE, WELCOME OUR NEW WEBM OVERLORDS:

http://xiphmont.livejournal.com/50239.html

and more officially,

Xiph.Org announces support for the WebM open media project:

http://xiphmont.livejournal.com/2010/05/20/

It's worth bearing in mind that Monty created Vorbis, as used for audio for WebM, but Theora was donated from On2's VP3 so there may be less sense of ownership. Plus their basic mission is royalty-free, open-source friendly media so this is a big thing for them.

They seem to be hinting that they can let Google do the publicity and get back into their core competency of R&D for future formats that will be substantially better than encumbered alternatives.

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