re all,

i  urge you  to take  act against  the exclusion  of Ogg/Vorbis/Theora
audio/video streaming  technology from the  HTML-5 specification: this
exclusion  will damage the  efficiency of  the world  wide web  in the
coming years by reducing the available protocols and codecs to the few
uncompatible  and  proprietary ones  sold  by  business companies;  at
present  time it  is clear  that Nokia  is being  responsible  of this
outrageous  disaster as  it untruly  referred to  Ogg  as "proprietary
technology"     addressing     the      W3C     board     on     HTML5
http://www.boingboing.net/2007/12/09/nokia-to-w3c-ogg-is.html

Together with repeated attempts by other commercial companies to turn
down Ogg/Vorbis/Theora FOSS implementation for audio/video streaming,
we are witnessing the manipulation of what it should be a clean
evolution path for the biggest technological platform we all share.

http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/11/1339251
http://yro.slashdot.org/firehose.pl?id=419439
http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=1142&to=1143

please        help         us        build        pressure        NOW:
http://rudd-o.com/archives/2007/12/11/removal-of-ogg-vorbis-and-theora-from-html5-an-outrageous-disaster/

the W3C is supposed to be a "neutral" platform for development of
specifications, but on the contrary it seems to listen only to
business interests rather than citizens voices. Let's do everything
possible to recall the attention of civil society organizations to
what is happening, ASAP.

it is our responsability as netizens (citizens of the net) to raise
voices against this continuous ingerence of business interests into
the making of a viable platform for _horizontal_ communication in
civil society, offering an open access to its infrastructure. The
present unefficiency and incompatibility of multimedia communication
online is already the result of competition and unresponsability of
companies racing to impose their closed technologies on the market,
while the online citizens have the right for a common open source
alternative to all possible commercial products because communication
is a human right for all!

thanks for your concern,

la lucha sigue, tambien aqui', no estamos solos!

ciao

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