Sun addressing the video codec issue

[Patrick]

http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/a ... codec.html

[greggh]

Excellent! Sun must have read my recent rant on this forum...

http://www.thelinuxlink.net/forum/viewt ... f=2&t=2740

Really enjoyed today's interview. I was gald to hear the guest talking about the serious problem that we are facing with flash streaming video. For a while now I have been thinking that this is one of the most serious problems facing the community and the freedom of the net in general. I think it is long past the time for some big FOSS companies like IBM, Sun, Redhat, and Novell to step up, pour in lots of developers and money, and either seriously improve ogg theora, or start fresh with a different free format. The freedom to communicate on the net is at stake.

[dann]

Hmm, at the end of the article it states that OMS is based on h26x technology. Isn't that by the mpeg group and wouldn't it be patent encumbered requiring a royality? I'll have to look into that.

[davijordan]

Maybe Sun will buy them out like they did mysql and things will get real interesting.