(In reply to Ralph Giles (:rillian) from comment #241) > My opinion is that we shouldn't land these patches at this time. > > This is essentially for policy reasons: [..] > We have for some years been holding the line against for royalty-free codecs > in HTML against very strong commercial and market pressure, because the > patent terms available for otherwise popular formats like mp3 and mp4 are > incompatible with our principles of user freedom.
Hasn't it occured to you that people would like to make their own choices about codec support? Is it because you think that your own userbase is not principled enough for you that you force your choice on all of us? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/412647 Title: Firefox is not able to play mp4 <video> tags To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/412647/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
