This page is about drafting an official statement from Debian about the What-WG's apparent plans to make patented technologies mandatory for HTML5's <video> tag.

Argument strategy

Unsure yet. We shouldn't focus on the end user; companies and government entities are using Debian, too, and are probably more at risk.

Further possible actions

See also

http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2007/03/msg00559.html

http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2007/03/msg00191.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WHATWG

http://www.whatwg.org/