HTML5 audio formats - Firefox should support AAC and IE should support OGG

Re:HTML5 audio formats - Firefox should support AAC and IE s... by devnul3 on Monday July 18, 2011 @03:32PM (#2777801)

It's not about "can't afford it", it's solely about "doesn't fit their business model".

This is in great, big letters on Mozilla's home page:

" We Are Building a Better Internet

And we’re dedicated to keeping it free, open and accessible to all. "

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Re:HTML5 audio formats - Firefox should support AAC and IE s... by cgranade on Monday July 18, 2011 @11:09PM (#2779423)

Not to mention that if they did pay for the license, I'm not sure that it would propagate down to forking projects. If you can't fork Firefox, that significantly impedes the utility of its open-source development model.

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Re:HTML5 audio formats - Firefox should support AAC and IE s... by lucian1900 on Tuesday July 19, 2011 @11:16AM (#2781260)

Very, very good point. Not everyone uses official Firefox binaries.

What should happen instead, MPEG-LA should give a perpetual license to all non-profit or open source developers of anything whatsoever.

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Re:HTML5 audio formats - Firefox should support AAC and IE s... by AshleysBrain on Tuesday July 19, 2011 @12:44PM (#2781698)

Chromium is open source and Chrome supports AAC. What do they do? Can Firefox do that too?

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