"Apple seems to be ideologically committed to [propriety formats].'
To their credit, Apple is not quite Microsoft. A good overview of FLOSS supported by Apple:
http://developer.apple.com/opensource/overview.html
Thanks, George [[User:GChriss]]
On Fri, 05 Jan 2007 04:09:35 +0000 English Wikipedia wrote:
On 05/01/07, Daniel R. Tobias dan@tobias.name wrote:
With Wikipedia's large current degree of popularity, doesn't it have any influence that could be wielded with manufacturers such as Apple to encourage them to add Ogg support to their players?
I don't wish to sound conspiratorial, but there are two great paradigms in computing at the moment: free/libre/open and proprietary/closed. Wikimedia is ideologically committed to one and Apple seems to be ideologically committed to the other.
I think supporting an open format such a Ogg will be seen as a concession by Apple to FLO and will be avoided for a while. By supporting Ogg, one aspect of the free/libre movement could quickly become ubiquitous. This may be seen as a slippery slope.
Anyway, even if I'm wrong, Ogg Vorbis (and Wikipedia's support of Ogg) is not yet large enough to concede to the open movement for.