On 05/01/07, Daniel R. Tobias <dan(a)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.
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