Re: [rtcweb] MTI video codec, charter, RFC 3929

[Peter Thatcher <[e-mail]>]

On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 3:48 PM, Adam Roach <[e-mail]> wrote:

> On 11/8/13 15:20, Peter Thatcher wrote:
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>> [S]ome people (FOSS projects) will have to ignore the spec if H.264 is
>> the MTI, because they have no choice...
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> You appear to have somehow missed Cisco's announcement last week.
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Of course, you may then speculate in return that no one cares about FOSS
>> projects and browsers, which I speculate would be an ironic coming from
>> someone representing a FOSS project.
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> I think your assertion is trivially disproved by the fact that we, as a
> FOSS project, are going to support H.264 for WebRTC.
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I'll let other FOSS projects speak for themselves (and Debian and Fedora
already have, I believe), but I speculate many of them will disagree with
you.​
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As a long-time FOSS developer myself (in small things; I claim no big
achievements), I personally don't see how the Cisco announcement changes
anything for a FOSS project, Firefox included.  Firefox still can't ship a
plugin-less browser with H.264, and neither can any FOSS project (at least
in nations where software patents are enforced).  But again, I'll let them
speak for themselves rather than claiming that one FOSS proves some
position for all of them.

And for that matter, this is all re-treading all the same arguments.  I
only keep commenting because it seems that FOSS projects (outside of
Firefox) seem poorly represented in this discussion, so I thought someone
should speak up for them a bit at times when they seem to be ignored.  I
hope this will be sufficient.


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