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Originally Posted by railroadmaster View Post
Thank you for correcting me. However I still think it is stupid for Apple to ban Adobe Flash. They say they support open standards while in truth they don't. They only support the proprietary h.264 video codec for video playback with html5.
Correction: the h.264 standard is, in fact, open. However, it is also patent encumbered, which is the problem. Hopefully the MPEG-LA will get snarled in a nasty patent war with Google and something good in the way of docking software patents will come out of it, if re. Bilski doesn't.
 

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