[Foundation-l] We should permit Flash video playback

[Ben McIlwain]

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Erik Moeller wrote:
> Last week I met with John Killy, the COO of the Mozilla Corporation,
> and with Brewster Kahle, ED of the Internet Archive. Mozilla intends
> to support video playback in Firefox using the new <video> tag [1],
> but such support is not likely to arrive before late 2008 according to
> John.

Oh, and Erik, I do wish you'd stop going off to meet people in secret
and reporting back only once you think you've made a deal (despite
lacking ability to push it through yourself).  You've done this before
and it didn't meet with success.  I believe we lost the opportunity for
a good partnership with Google in this manner.  Converse with your
fellow Boardmembers and the community FIRST and *then* you can go and
talk to the other people.  Because I really, highly doubt that the
Foundation is going to go for anything so radical and unnecessary as
turning over all video hosting duties to an outside organization and
using proprietary, non-free formats.
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