“Opera has filed a formal complaint with the European Commission to force Microsoft to support open Web standards in its Web browser, Internet Explorer. We believe that Microsoft has harmed Web standards by refusing to support them; Microsoft often participates in creating Web standards, promoting them, and even promising to implement them. Despite their talent, however, they refuse to support Web standards correctly. For example, Internet Explorer is the only modern Web browser that does not support Acid2.”
Open Letter to the Web Community, Håkon Wium Lie
Chief Technology Officer, Opera Software
Another quote on the subject of Ogg:
“Ogg provides a baseline of fully unencumbered, fully open, fully documented, fully royalty-free codecs that are lighter-weight than the contemporary encumbered solutions while offering comparable or superior performance. Ogg is not fantasy or vapourware. It is widely deployed, tested, and reviewed. Ogg has already stood the test of time.”
Statement Regarding the HTML5 Draft and the Ogg Codec Set, Christopher “Monty” Montgomery [and others], Director, Xiph.Org
Two quotes today:
“They told us the only way to avoid paying to sing the carols is if the kids are told to stick to old songs which are out of copyright.”
Margaret Hatton, Dam House
(Talking about the Performing Rights Society)
“…a W3C-lead standardization of a “free” codec, or the active endorsement of proprietary technology such as Ogg, …, by W3C, is, in our opinion, not helpful …”
Steven Wenger, Nokia
(From a position paper submitted by Nokia to the W3C)