[Linuxtrent] Re: No double standards: supporting Google's push for WebM
- From: vinay <findvinayshukla@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: linuxtrent@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 17:23:53 +0100
wow! great news.
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vinay
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 11:14 AM, Emanuele Olivetti <emanuele@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> wrote:
> FSF supporta WebM.
>
> Emanuele
>
> ------- Start of forwarded message -------
> Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 23:37:22 -0500
> From: peter brown<peterb@xxxxxxx>
> Subject: [FSFE PR][EN] [GNU/FSF Press] No double standards: supporting
> Google's
> push for WebM
> Reply-to: press@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, info@xxxxxxx
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> ## FSF Announces Support for WebM Project, Encourages Adoption
>
> BOSTON, Massachusetts, USA -- Wednesday, January 19, 2011 -- The Free
> Software Foundation (FSF) today announced that it is officially
> supporting the WebM Project, and is encouraging Web site operators to
> migrate any H.264-encoded video they have to WebM.
>
> The full FSF announcement, "No double standards: supporting Google's
> push for WebM" is available on its web site at
> <http://www.fsf.org/news/supporting-webm>.
>
> "Google has been working to bring together a broad coalition of
> organizations to support WebM, which will go far to help it become the
> video codec of choice with HTML5," explained Brett Smith, license
> compliance engineer for the Free Software Foundation. "We want the
> world to know that we also support WebM: with its developer-friendly
> patent license and free software reference implementation, it's a good
> choice to help ensure the Web fulfills its promise of providing a free
> way for the world to communicate."
>
> FSF executive director Peter Brown said, "We applaud Google's effort in
> not only making WebM available for implementation by free software, but
> also in promoting its reasons for deprecating the use of H.264. Now is
> the time to act. Through joint community effort in support of WebM, we
> can sustain the vision of the Web as free and unencumbered."
>
> Google released the WebM video codec in May 2010. Unlike its competitor
> H.264, developers who support WebM in their software do not have to
> agree to a patent license that requires royalty payments, or limits how
> developers license their own software.
>
>
> ### About the Free Software Foundation
>
> The Free Software Foundation, founded in 1985, is dedicated to promoting
> computer users' right to use, study, copy, modify, and redistribute
> computer programs. The FSF promotes the development and use of free (as
> in freedom) software -- particularly the GNU operating system and its
> GNU/Linux variants -- and free documentation for free software. The FSF
> also helps to spread awareness of the ethical and political issues of
> freedom in the use of software, and its Web sites, located at fsf.org
> and gnu.org, are an important source of information about GNU/Linux.
> Donations to support the FSF's work can be made at
> <http://donate.fsf.org>. Its headquarters are in Boston, MA, USA.
>
> ### Media Contacts
>
> Brett Smith
> License Compliance Engineer
> Free Software Foundation
> +1 (617) 542 5942 x18
>
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