[whatwg] more discussion regarding codecs (Was: whatwg Digest, Vol 45, Issue 16)

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On Dec 12, 2007 1:07 AM, Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch> wrote:
> what the courts say than with what the patents say. If Apple say they
> don't want to implement Ogg, then we have to find another solution.
>
> (Similarly -- Opera, Mozilla, et al, don't want to implement H.264. So we
> have to find a solution other than H.264.)

Thank  you for your reply.  From what you just said, I'm afraid we're
stuck between a rock and a hard place, and would not be able to
resolve it.

This is really too bad.


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