Mozilla reconsiders its stance on h.264 video codec
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Mozilla may be acquiescing when it comes to only supporting open and free standards, as it seems the popular h.264 video codec will soon be accessible on Mozilla's Boot2Gecko project and Firefox for Android. Andreas Gal, Mozilla's director of research, outlined the plan that would allow mobile versions of it's open-source browsers to use h.264 when it's available via a device's operating system. Using the codec this way would allow the organization to avoid the $5 million in licensing fees that it would have to pay to include the h.264 within its browser. »read more
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