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i urge you to take act against the exclusion of Ogg/Vorbis/Theora
> audio/video streaming technology from the HTML-5 specification: this
> exclusion will damage the efficiency of the world wide web in the
> coming years by reducing the available protocols and codecs to the few
> uncompatible and proprietary ones sold by business companies; at
> present time it is clear that Nokia is being responsible of this
> outrageous disaster as it untruly referred to Ogg as “proprietary
> technology” addressing the W3C board on HTML5
> http://www.boingboing.net/2007/12/09/nokia-to-w3c-ogg-is.html
>
> Together with repeated attempts by other commercial companies to turn
> down Ogg/Vorbis/Theora FOSS implementation for audio/video streaming,
> we are witnessing the manipulation of what it should be a clean
> evolution path for the biggest technological platform we all share.
>
> http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/11/1339251
> http://yro.slashdot.org/firehose.pl?id=419439
> http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=1142&to=1143
>
> please help us build pressure NOW:
> http://rudd-o.com/
>
> the W3C is supposed to be a “neutral” platform for development of
> specifications, but on the contrary it seems to listen only to
> business interests rather than citizens voices. Let’s do everything
> possible to recall the attention of civil society organizations to
> what is happening, ASAP.
>
> it is our responsability as netizens (citizens of the net) to raise
> voices against this continuous ingerence of business interests into
> the making of a viable platform for _horizontal_ communication in
> civil society, offering an open access to its infrastructure. The
> present unefficiency and incompatibility of multimedia communication
> online is already the result of competition and unresponsability of
> companies racing to impose their closed technologies on the market,
> while the online citizens have the right for a common open source
> alternative to all possible commercial products because communication
> is a human right for all!
>
> thanks for your concern,
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