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dgerard at gmail

Jun 7, 2009, 8:26 AM

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Why don't we re-encode proprietary formats as Ogg?

It would be a simple matter of programming to have something that
allows upload of encumbered video and audio formats and re-encode them
as Ogg Theora or Ogg Vorbis. It would greatly add to how much stuff we
get, as it would save the user the trouble of re-encoding, or
installing Firefogg, or whatever.

So why don't we do this? Has it been officially assessed as a legal
risk * (and I mean more than people saying it might be on a mailing
list **), has no-one really bothered, or what?

* until the Supreme Court uses in re Bilski to drive the software
patents into the ocean, cross fingers.
** though I fully expect people will now do so anyway

- d.

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Subject	User	Time
Why don't we re-encode proprietary formats as Ogg?	dgerard at gmail	Jun 7, 2009, 8:26 AM
Re: Why don't we re-encode proprietary formats as Ogg?	Platonides at gmail	Jun 7, 2009, 9:30 AM
Re: Why don't we re-encode proprietary formats as Ogg?	dgerard at gmail	Jun 7, 2009, 9:41 AM
Re: Why don't we re-encode proprietary formats as Ogg?	removed at example	Jun 7, 2009, 10:14 AM
Re: Why don't we re-encode proprietary formats as Ogg?	dgerard at gmail	Jun 7, 2009, 10:25 AM
Re: Why don't we re-encode proprietary formats as Ogg?	rarohde at gmail	Jun 7, 2009, 12:00 PM
Re: Why don't we re-encode proprietary formats as Ogg?	rarohde at gmail	Jun 7, 2009, 12:07 PM
Re: Why don't we re-encode proprietary formats as Ogg?	dgerard at gmail	Jun 7, 2009, 12:24 PM
Re: Why don't we re-encode proprietary formats as Ogg?	meta.sj at gmail	Jun 7, 2009, 3:02 PM
Re: Why don't we re-encode proprietary formats as Ogg?	newsmarkie at googlemail	Jun 7, 2009, 3:06 PM
Re: Why don't we re-encode proprietary formats as Ogg?	dgerard at gmail	Jun 7, 2009, 3:10 PM
Re: Why don't we re-encode proprietary formats as Ogg?	tstarling at wikimedia	Jun 7, 2009, 8:25 PM
Re: Why don't we re-encode proprietary formats as Ogg?	dgerard at gmail	Jun 8, 2009, 4:28 AM
Re: Why don't we re-encode proprietary formats as Ogg?	cimonavaro at gmail	Jun 8, 2009, 9:17 PM
Re: Why don't we re-encode proprietary formats as Ogg?	removed at example	Jun 8, 2009, 9:54 PM
Re: Why don't we re-encode proprietary formats as Ogg?	millosh at gmail	Jun 8, 2009, 2:10 AM
Re: Why don't we re-encode proprietary formats as Ogg?	grin at grin	Jun 8, 2009, 5:36 AM
Re: Why don't we re-encode proprietary formats as Ogg?	dgerard at gmail	Jun 8, 2009, 5:54 AM
Re: Why don't we re-encode proprietary formats as Ogg?	grinapo at gmail	Jun 8, 2009, 6:58 AM
Re: Why don't we re-encode proprietary formats as Ogg?	tstarling at wikimedia	Jun 8, 2009, 7:06 AM
Re: Why don't we re-encode proprietary formats as Ogg?	grinapo at gmail	Jun 8, 2009, 7:53 AM
Re: Why don't we re-encode proprietary formats as Ogg?	mdale at wikimedia	Jun 8, 2009, 2:57 PM
Re: Why don't we re-encode proprietary formats as Ogg?	removed at example	Jun 8, 2009, 3:00 PM
Re: Why don't we re-encode proprietary formats as Ogg?	mdale at wikimedia	Jun 8, 2009, 3:20 PM
Re: Why don't we re-encode proprietary formats as Ogg?	Platonides at gmail	Jun 9, 2009, 10:34 AM
Re: Why don't we re-encode proprietary formats as Ogg?	cimonavaro at gmail	Jun 8, 2009, 11:18 PM
Re: Why don't we re-encode proprietary formats as Ogg?	removed at example	Jun 8, 2009, 11:19 PM
Re: Why don't we re-encode proprietary formats as Ogg?	cimonavaro at gmail	Jun 8, 2009, 11:26 PM
Re: Why don't we re-encode proprietary formats as Ogg?	removed at example	Jun 8, 2009, 11:27 PM
Re: Why don't we re-encode proprietary formats as Ogg?	cimonavaro at gmail	Jun 8, 2009, 11:30 PM
Re: Why don't we re-encode proprietary formats as Ogg?	removed at example	Jun 8, 2009, 11:43 PM

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