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By nato
via fsf.org
Published: Feb 20 2010 / 07:19

Open letter to Google: free VP8, and use it on YouTube - Free Software Foundation
With its purchase of the On2 video compression technology company having been completed on Wednesday February 16, 2010, Google now has the opportunity to make free video formats the standard, freeing the web from both Flash and the proprietary H.264 codec.
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RawThinkTank replied ago:

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All hands are on deck against flash

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Miloskov replied ago:

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I hope Google do it. If not it will be the next M$ "EVIL".

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toomasr replied ago:

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I had not heard about VP8 before. The wiki article is quite empty, there is more info on VP6. A link that I found that had the features of the codec listed was at http://www.yenra.com/wiki/On2_VP8

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