[Foundation-l] We should permit Flash video playback

[David Gerard]

On 20/07/07, Ilya Haykinson <haykinson at gmail.com> wrote:

> The mission doesn't say anything about exclusivity.  It doesn't say
> "educational content ONLY under a free license".  I see no reason for
> us not to accept MP3 files and transcode them, providing the OGG and
> the MP3 and whatever other formats strike our fancy.  I see no reason
> for us to prohibit Flash, when the same video can also be available in
> Theora or whatever the free codec of the day is relatively popular.
> Why punish our users in the name of the exclusively-open?


Note by the way that we accepted animated GIFs where useful even while
the GIF patents were current, because MNG (the animated version of
PNG) was supported by almost no-one by default and was hence all but
useless.


- d.