Cory Doctorow: At long last, open video formats are triumphing / Boing Boing

"Apple was the last major holdout on proprietary video codecs, the only major industry player that hadn't signed onto the Alliance for Open Media, home of the AV1 video format, a successor to On2's groundbreaking open formats of the early web years, which led to the company's acquisition by Google in 2010.

Now, Apple has joined the Alliance for Open Media, which bodes very well for the future of open, unencumbered video formats that anyone can implement and playback.

The fights over patent encumbrances in video have been bitter, and, I believe, caused Mozilla to believe it could not beat the W3C's drive to standardize DRM for web video. The eventual triumph of an open format is a vindication of Mozilla's principled stand on open video formats...."