FSF Urges Google to Kill Flash
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What might Google do with ON2 Technologies, the video encoding company it acquired late last week after months of negotiations with shareholders? The Free Software Foundation (FSF) has posted an open letter to Google this weekend, suggesting that the search giant should open source ON2’s VP8 video codec and push for its mainstream adoption by making it the default codec for YouTube videos. “You can end the web’s dependence on patent-encumbered video formats and proprietary software,” the letter states. The upshot is that the FSF wants Google to kill Adobe’s Flash. Check out more in the NewTeeVee story here.
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