[xiph-commits] r13780 - websites/theora.org/benefits

[maikmerten at svn.xiph.org]

Author: maikmerten
Date: 2007-09-09 05:19:09 -0700 (Sun, 09 Sep 2007)
New Revision: 13780

Modified:
   websites/theora.org/benefits/index.shtml.en
Log:
slight rewording and typo fixes


Modified: websites/theora.org/benefits/index.shtml.en
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--- websites/theora.org/benefits/index.shtml.en	2007-09-09 12:12:00 UTC (rev 13779)
+++ websites/theora.org/benefits/index.shtml.en	2007-09-09 12:19:09 UTC (rev 13780)
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 
 <h1>Theora benefits</h1>
 
-<h2>Licensing</h2>
+<h2>Ogg Theora is free</h2>
 <p>
 Theora comes without licensing fees. Neither commercial nor private use will make you owe money to us.
 The Theora specification is in the public domain, its reference implementation is open source and subject
@@ -23,14 +23,13 @@
 <a href="http://www.mpegla.com/avc/AVC_TermsSummary.pdf">licensing terms published by MPEG-LA</a> MPEG-4 Part 10
 (AVC) the encoder/decoder technology can cost as much as $4.25 million (2007-2008) to $5 million (2009-2010).
 If a particular product is only shipped as often as 100.000 times no encoder/decoder licensing costs emerge. Note, however,
-that to run a successful internet content business 100.000 allowed "free" software downloads depending on
-circumstances are aggregated pretty fast - without any guarantee that each software download generates a paying
-customer refinancing your future licensing costs. Even MPEG content distribution may itself generates fees.
+that to run a successful internet content business 100.000 allowed "free" software downloads are aggregated pretty
+fast depending on circumstances - without any guarantee that each software download generates a paying
+customer refinancing your future licensing costs. Even MPEG content distribution may itself generate fees.
 </p>
 
 <p>
-To make matters worse every MPEG video stream needs to be coupled with MPEG audio technology, which introduces additional costs. Ogg Theora,
-OTOH, can e.g. use Ogg Vorbis, Ogg Speex or Ogg FLAC as audio codec - all of which itself are free.
+To make matters worse every MPEG video stream needs to be coupled with MPEG audio technology, which introduces additional costs. Ogg Theora can e.g. use Ogg Vorbis, Ogg Speex or Ogg FLAC as audio codec - all of which are free and open.
 </p>
 
 <h2>Ogg Theora is suited for internet content delivery</h2>
@@ -53,7 +52,6 @@
 </p>
 
 
-
 <h2>Ogg Theora is cross-platform</h2>
 <p>Basically every major Linux distribution ships with support for Ogg Theora by default. The licensing terms of MPEG or e.g. VC-1
 make those compression schemes inherently incompatible with the idea of truly free open source software. If you want to