December 14th, 2007 by Ivan
“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
December 13th, 2007 by Ivan
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
December 11th, 2007 by Ivan
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)
October 3rd, 2007 by Ivan
“When an individual makes a copy of a song for himself, I suppose we can say he stole a song.”
“[Making] a copy of a purchased song is just “a nice way of saying ‘steals just one copy’.”
Jennifer Pariser, Head of litigation for Sony BMG.
August 14th, 2007 by Ivan
The DRM business model is the urinary tract infection of media experiences: all of the uses that used to come in an easy gush now come in a mingy, painful dribble – a few pennies out of your pocket every time you want to watch a show again, hit the pause button, or rewind.
Quote from Cory Doctorow in Don’t fall for the Potemkin scam, The Guardian 14th August 2007.