From the article: <i>It pushes the software freedom issues from the browser (where we have leverage to possibly change the codec situation)</i><p>This is what it's all really about: trying to use Mozilla's leverage to foist an unpopular and inferior technology on an unwilling web. Remind you of the antics of any other company with a popular browser?<p>Power corrupts. Thank god Firefox doesn't have the same market share as IE did. Webkit ftw, here.