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Originally Posted by hircus View Post
The official line we've heard so far regarding Ogg support in the Nokia tablets is that it is up to third party developers to implement it -- indeed, Ari Jaaksi pointed to Maemo Garage for such support.

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The situation gets even more worrying with the new position paper attached to the HTML5 video workgroup discussion, calling Ogg formats "proprietary". What gives?
I'm baffled by Nokia's position also. It may be as simple as them assuming that since there is so much demand from the community, that the community will fill that void themselves. But with this paper indicating that they think of ogg as proprietary, I am starting to think that someone high in the Nokia decision making tree is very confused since the front-line devs seem (at least morally) supportive of ogg support. I would love to hear their reasoning behind making that premise-less conclusion so I have asked the question on the maemo-dev list ... I don't expect a clear response but I had to try.

/Mike