Firefox With H.264 HTML 5 Support = Wild Fox 477
Elledan writes "Two countries have software patents which make it impossible to freely use video codecs such as AVC (H.264). This has led to projects such as Firefox not including AVC support with the HTML 5 video tag in their releases, which makes the rest of the world suffer indirectly the effects of software patents as well. To rectify this situation at least somewhat, I have created the Wild Fox project, which aims to release Firefox builds with the features previously excluded due to software patents. This software will be available to those in non-software-patent-encumbered countries. Any developers who wish to join the project are more than welcome."
Re:"impossiblefreely".... WTF? (Score:3, Funny)
Story posted at the speed of kdawson.
Re:"impossiblefreely".... WTF? (Score:2, Funny)
That a new word?
yes, thatanewword.
Re:watch out for importation to USA (Score:3, Funny)
Not to mention concerns over invasive species... ;)
Re:"impossiblefreely".... WTF? (Score:4, Funny)
yes, thatanewword.
Hmm, is that a malamanteau ?
Re:watch out for importation to USA (Score:1, Funny)
Solution: Host the site in Russia. Any FBI agents who try to set foot there will quickly be gunned down by the phishing mafia...and the US probably isn't willing to start a nuclear war over H.264. :)
Re:Software patents are profoundly anticompetitive (Score:3, Funny)
To be fair, that's an adverb.
Re:H264 patients in various countries (Score:1, Funny)
MPEG LA has been granted patients in numerous countries
Oh shit, they have overtaken health-care too?
Re:End of Firefox? (Score:4, Funny)
As far as I can tell their is no "they".
Their is no they're is no there. So there.
Re:coming to a .deb near you! (Score:3, Funny)
Wouldn't that be tame weasel?
Re:Software patents are profoundly anticompetitive (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Ubuntu should stick with Firefox. (Score:3, Funny)
Here's a hint, writing stuff in all caps doesn't make it true.
MOD PARENT NORTH (Score:1, Funny)
n/t
Re:Ubuntu should stick with Firefox. (Score:3, Funny)
Didn’t you know? The new fad with Linux desktop environments (not everything else Linux) is to make them just as much a PITA for everyone who actually got a brain, than Windows and MacOS: By setting all the defaults in a way that only the dumbest of the dumb like it.
Because apparently because they scream the loudest, they are the most important ones. And ever will be. Even when that whole behavior just lowers the whole Gaussian curve of intelligence distribution every time, creating new, worse, idiots.
I’m not trolling. I got proof that you can check yourself: ;)
In a freshly installed KDE4, this can be shown beautifully with Dolphin. Start it, go to the settings, and just blindly set every checkbox to the opposite. And suddenly Dolphin behaves in a much more sane way, where it’s much more usable. (Don’t forget to also go to systemsettings and set the global option from “mousover + single click” to “click and double-click“ [don’t know the exact names].)
This also works beautifully for most other things KDE4.
And it would also work for Gnome, if the Gnome team would still give you any option to change it.
Again: I’m really just talking about the topmost UI layer. The libs are mostly pretty nice and QT is just beautiful internally in my opinion.