Luego de que Nokia y Apple forzaran a la W3C a cambiar las especificaciones del HTML5 sobre vídeo, los abogados de la xiph foundation les han quitado a los expertos la mordaza de la boca… Y ya están saliedo las primeras cosillas!

Primero se aclara la mentira que dijeron de que OGG es privativo. Y luego.. hmmm.. se analiza un poco el MPEG y parece que no es tan limpio como lo pintan! Yo no puedo más que recordar ese momento de Scarface cuando los polis yanquis miran a los revolucionarios y Scarface dice: “Esta es la gente que tenemos que temer… porque nosotros somos buenos, pero es que a nosotros nos pagan. Ellos lo hacen gratis!” :D. Aquí el comunicado entero, dense una vuelta por la xiph org para ver qué sigue pasando!

Muchas gracias a la gente de la xiph foundation por pararse ahí como Jorge frente al dragón. O como David frente a Goliath, etc.

Ogg provides a baseline of fully unencumbered, fully open, fully documented, fully royalty-free codecs that are lighter-weight than the contemporary encumbered solutions while offering comparable or superior performance. Ogg is not fantasy or vapourware. It is widely deployed, tested, and reviewed. Ogg has already stood the test of time.Xiph knows of no infringing technology in Ogg. Tens of millions of copies have been deployed worldwide over the past ten years in a diverse array of software and hardware products from small .orgs like Wikimedia [1] to giant commercial vendors such as Samsung and Microsoft. Ogg has triggered no litigation to date.

The same cannot be said for MPEG. Despite the MPEG proponents’ claims that MPEG-licensed codecs protect against liability, patent disputes involving MPEG codecs have occurred as recently as the past few months. For example, Lucent v. Gateway and Multimedia Patent Trust v. Microsoft Corp. The MPEG-LA’s own sublicense disclaimer warns that licensees are not protected from patent-related litigation nor are they protected from submarine patents.

The W3C has expressed a clear intention to officially define video as an integral part of the web by introducing the <video/> tag. Up to this point, video on the web has been presented primarily using a fragmented array of proprietary extensions powered by encumbered formats. Those who cannot use them have been made second-class citizens. Failing to standardize on an unencumbered, reasonably-performing format is a failure to advance beyond this state.

In the interest of interoperability and to prevent large vendor lock-in to proprietary methods, we support the W3C’s desire to adopt the unencumbered technology as the baseline.

Christopher “Monty” Montgomery [and others]
Director
Xiph.Org

December 12, 2007: Xiph.Org Statement Regarding the HTML5 Draft and the Ogg Codec Set

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