Mozilla Firefox Gives in on Web Video Patents

“Mozilla’s initial attempt to help enable an open web without
the patent-encumbered H.264 video codecs has failed. In my opinion,
this is a sad day for the open web and a terrible precedent for
Mozilla to set.

Mozilla had tried to get around using H.264 by using and
supporting open web video formats. The problem is that content
providers haven’t embraced the same model and more importantly,
Google hasn’t either (even though they champion WebM, H.264 still
runs on Android).

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