[Vorbis] Nokia against the adoption of the Ogg technologies by W3C's HTML5

Daniil V. Kolpakov dan at riga.lv
Tue Dec 11 02:43:41 PST 2007


http://www.w3.org/2007/08/video/positions/Nokia.pdf

[...]
Anything beyond that, including a W3C-lead standardization of a “free” codec,
or the active endorsement of proprietary technology such as Ogg, …, by W3C,
is, in our opinion, not helpful for the co-existence of the two ecosystems
(web and video), and therefore not our choice.
[...]

Charming. Now they call Ogg a "proprietary technology".

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