theora - Jan 2010 - Theora Petition on YouTube

Hi again,
Here is a petition against YouTube, this is requesting YouTube uses  
open-standards to display media rather than H.264.
http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/oggandyoutube/

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On 01/22/2010 03:06 PM, Daniel Hendrycks wrote:
> Hi again,
> Here is a petition against YouTube, this is requesting YouTube uses  
> open-standards to display media rather than H.264.
> http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/oggandyoutube/
>
>   
According to Google, they *are* using open standards by using H.264. 
They're using the <video> tag.  It's HTML5.  It's an open
standard.
H.264 is also an open standard.  Oh, yeah, you have to pay licensing
fees to use it, but the *standard* is open.

What we need to say is that Google should use free-and-open,
royalty-free & patent-free (to the best that such a thing is possible)
codecs for their multimedia.  Yes, it's easier to say "open
standard",
but they showed us how that's not precise enough.

fredag 22 januari 2010 20:06:30 skrev  Daniel Hendrycks:
> Hi again,
> Here is a petition against YouTube, this is requesting YouTube uses
> open-standards to display media rather than H.264.
> http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/oggandyoutube/
> 
You can also vote directly at google:
http://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/youtube-ogg

"You can also vote directly at google:"
People have already voted. There was one poll and over 12,000 people voted  
for Ogg. Then Google saw that and removed the poll. On petition spot  
google cant delete a request and silence us, since they do not own  
petition spot.
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s?ndag 24 januari 2010 20:30:26 skrev  Daniel Hendrycks:
> "You can also vote directly at google:"
> People have already voted. There was one poll and over 12,000 people
>  voted for Ogg. Then Google saw that and removed the poll. On
>  petition spot google cant delete a request and silence us, since
>  they do not own petition spot.
> 
Wow, has this been documented elsewhere?

On Mon, 25 Jan 2010 14:00:02 -0600, <theora-request at xiph.org> wrote:
> Wow, has this been documented elsewhere?
In the vorbis mailing list and I created threads in the Opera community, I  
posted one in the mozilla forum and they locked it. Please spread it, it  
hasn't reached many people.

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On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 4:44 AM, Hannes Hauswedell
<theora.list at soulrebel.in-berlin.de> wrote:
> s?ndag 24 januari 2010 20:30:26 skrev ?Daniel Hendrycks:
>> "You can also vote directly at google:"
>> People have already voted. There was one poll and over 12,000 people
>> ?voted for Ogg. Then Google saw that and removed the poll. On
>> ?petition spot google cant delete a request and silence us, since
>> ?they do not own petition spot.
>>
>
> Wow, has this been documented elsewhere?

Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by
... other means.

In this case google claimed they heard the message and removed them
because they were utterly drowning out other ideas:

http://blog.thesilentnumber.me/2010/01/youtube-20-needs-your-input.html