“ Put another way, “open and better” is a recipe for success; “open but worse” is a recipe for obscurity. Popular video publishing sites aren’t going to use Ogg Theora instead of H.264, and I think they’re very unlikely to support it in addition to H.264, either. Encoding and storage are expensive; supporting both would at least double those costs.
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Daring Fireball: Mozilla, Video, and Mobile Computing
I don’t always agree with Gruber, but he’s spot on with this analysis. It’s time for Mozilla and MPEG LA to get together and make this problem go away.
