After thinking about things and reading comments about the Ogg removal from HTML5 specs, I don't think I'm as upset as I used to be. Yes corporations managed to weasel their way in and pressure the W3C to remove the Ogg format from HTML5, most likely to keep up their own DRM, but I think there's more to it than that. 

One, nothing is preventing Ogg from being used as an object embedded in a website, simply put having Ogg in the spec never forced any format to be used.  This leads to another thought. The spec never forced any format to be used. So Ogg could have been included in the spec and Nokia could still use their DRM-laden formats. From what I believe and I think, the Ogg inclusion in the HTML5 spec only provided for a media format to be easily included into websites. This in itself is not bad at all, but I guess threatened Nokia and Apple enough to want it removed. I'm unsure as to what effect removing Ogg from the final spec will do, but it'd be interesting to wait and see what turns out. It's early enough that for all we know Ogg may sneak its way back in...but I'm not holding my breath.

Tags: w3c, ogg, html