FSF Slams Google over Dropping JPEG-XL in Chrome
So a few dozen comments, but so far it doesn&#x27;t look like any mention the immediate thing that jumped out at me which was the claims vs AVIF:<p>&gt;<i>&quot;In turn, what users will be given is yet another facet of the web that Google itself controls: the AVIF format.&quot;</i><p>Huh? I&#x27;ll admit I haven&#x27;t been following codecs as super ultra closely as I used to, but I thought AOM was a pretty broad coalition of varying interests and AV1 an open, royalty free codec that was plenty open source friendly? I&#x27;ve heard plenty of reasonable arguments that JPEG XL has some real technical advantages over AVIF and as well as superior performance is much more feature rich and scalable. So I could see people being bummed for that. But this is the first time I&#x27;ve heard the assertion that it&#x27;s somehow a Google project? I mean, AOM&#x27;s libavif reference is BSD too [0]? I&#x27;d love some more details on that from anyone who has been following this more closely. I can even understand if AOM isn&#x27;t as community friendly and an accusation that it&#x27;s dominated by big corps, but in that case why single out Google alone? From wiki:<p>&gt;<i>The governing members of the Alliance for Open Media are Amazon, Apple, ARM, Cisco, Facebook, Google, Huawei, Intel, Microsoft, Mozilla, Netflix, Nvidia, Samsung Electronics and Tencent.</i><p>Like, Google is certainly significant, but that&#x27;s a lot of equally heavy hitters. And interesting that Mozilla is there too.<p>----<p>0: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;AOMediaCodec&#x2F;libavif">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;AOMediaCodec&#x2F;libavif</a>