[whatwg] Ogg content on the Web

[ryan]

On Dec 12, 2007, at 6:23 AM, David Gerard wrote:

> FWIW, Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons only allow unencumbered formats
> on the site. Video MUST be Ogg Theora. Compressed audio better be Ogg.
>
> wikipedia.org is something like #8 in the world at present, so this is
> set to be a significant content repository actually used by people. A
> video tag which can be relied upon to support the format in at least
> Firefox would be enormously helpful to us and our readers.
>
> So far we have had zero patent trolls come calling. I wonder why  
> that is.

Because the Wikimedia Foundation doesn't have much money. Patent  
trolls are opportunistic, not idealistic.

-ryan