On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 14:01, Mike.lifeguard mikelifeguard@fastmail.fm wrote:
Silly me, I never thought anyone would even consider having a standard that wasn't completely open.
Maybe you are joking and i am missing it, but that is indeed sad - Nokia, Apple, Microsoft and many other companies really like non-open standards and dislike open ones. In the particular case of video, they all probably hate OGG, because it is not DRM-friendly.
But it's even better not to push OGG through a committee, but to make it the de-facto standard by just using it as much as possible and recommending Wikipedia readers to install a browser that supports it. Microsoft made IP their main network protocol after their proprietary offerings weren't so popular, while ODF's adoption is still weak in comparison to MS-Office despite apparent support from standards committees and some local laws.