FSF Wants Google to Kill Flash

FSF Wants Google to Kill Flash

The Free Software Foundation, an IT company that gives IT Support to free of licensing restriction software wrote a letter to Internet company Google last Friday. The purpose of the letter was that FSF asked Google too make the Web better by cleaning it of Flash and H.264 video. This action comes as both IT products are proprietary technologies and the FSF wants something else, another standard for the Web.

Google has tried to make a step forward by offering another alternative on YouTube besides Flash, but its technology relies on the H.264 video codec, which doesn't mean something new. And as Google controls something different, On2's VP8 codec, the FSF said in its letter that "With your purchase of On2, you now own both the world's largest video site (YouTube) and all the patents behind a new high performance video codec -- VP8. You can end the Web's dependence on patent-encumbered video formats and proprietary software (Flash)."