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schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

I still wonder why video is about the only thing for which a restricted format is still the “industry standard”?

We nowadays take photos in JPEG or WebP format, draw raster images in PNG or WebP format, vector graphics in SVG format, our documents are PDF or OOXML or ODF or HTML, all of which are (at least technically) open standards. Video is the only thing that still mostly runs on formats with restrictive patents.

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