There was a recent HN post on this topic that garnered a lot of discussion:<p><a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1070780" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1070780</a><p>This new blog-post from Robert O'Callahan (one of the Mozilla developers who worked on the &#60;video&#62; element) explains Mozilla's position much better than anyone in the HN thread did, touching on things like patent licensing, using GStreamer, and idealism.