With its purchase of the On2 video compression technology company having been completed on Wednesday February 16, 2010, Google now has the opportunity to make free video formats the standard, freeing the web from both Flash and the proprietary H.264 codec.
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Lanadapter
14 years 32 weeks 3 hours 46 min ago
Free software and open formats are what made the web great
We'd never have had such widespread collaboration and creativity if web formats were only controlled by a few companies. Come on Google, you have the leverage to keep adobe and mpeg-la from controlling web video!