<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Peter Brown</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:info@fsf.org">info@fsf.org</a>></span><br>Date: 2011/1/19<br>
Subject: [FSF] No double standards: supporting Google's push for WebM<br>To: <a href="mailto:info-fsf@fsf.org">info-fsf@fsf.org</a><br><br><br><a href="http://www.fsf.org/news/supporting-webm" target="_blank">http://www.fsf.org/news/supporting-webm</a><br>
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## FSF Announces Support for WebM Project, Encourages Adoption<br>
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BOSTON, Massachusetts, USA -- Wednesday, January 19, 2011 -- The Free<br>
Software Foundation (FSF) today announced that it is officially<br>
supporting the WebM Project, and is encouraging Web site operators to<br>
migrate any H.264-encoded video they have to WebM.<br>
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The full FSF announcement, "No double standards: supporting Google's<br>
push for WebM" is available on its web site at<br>
<<a href="http://www.fsf.org/news/supporting-webm" target="_blank">http://www.fsf.org/news/supporting-webm</a>>.<br>
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"Google has been working to bring together a broad coalition of<br>
organizations to support WebM, which will go far to help it become the<br>
video codec of choice with HTML5," explained Brett Smith, license<br>
compliance engineer for the Free Software Foundation. �"We want the<br>
world to know that we also support WebM: with its developer-friendly<br>
patent license and free software reference implementation, it's a good<br>
choice to help ensure the Web fulfills its promise of providing a free<br>
way for the world to communicate."<br>
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FSF executive director Peter Brown said, "We applaud Google's effort in<br>
not only making WebM available for implementation by free software, but<br>
also in promoting its reasons for deprecating the use of H.264. Now is<br>
the time to act. Through joint community effort in support of WebM, we<br>
can sustain the vision of the Web as free and unencumbered."<br>
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Google released the WebM video codec in May 2010. Unlike its competitor<br>
H.264, developers who support WebM in their software do not have to<br>
agree to a patent license that requires royalty payments, or limits how<br>
developers license their own software.<br>
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### About the Free Software Foundation<br>
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The Free Software Foundation, founded in 1985, is dedicated to promoting<br>
computer users' right to use, study, copy, modify, and redistribute<br>
computer programs. The FSF promotes the development and use of free (as<br>
in freedom) software -- particularly the GNU operating system and its<br>
GNU/Linux variants -- and free documentation for free software. The FSF<br>
also helps to spread awareness of the ethical and political issues of<br>
freedom in the use of software, and its Web sites, located at <a href="http://fsf.org" target="_blank">fsf.org</a><br>
and <a href="http://gnu.org" target="_blank">gnu.org</a>, are an important source of information about GNU/Linux.<br>
Donations to support the FSF's work can be made at<br>
<<a href="http://donate.fsf.org" target="_blank">http://donate.fsf.org</a>>. Its headquarters are in Boston, MA, USA.<br>
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### Media Contacts<br>
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</div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Diego Saravia<br><a href="mailto:Diego.Saravia@gmail.com">Diego.Saravia@gmail.com</a><br>NO FUNCIONA-><a href="mailto:dsa@unsa.edu.ar">dsa@unsa.edu.ar</a><br>