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Promoting a free format could very well benefit customers, I don't think customers would be very happy to pay to upload videos to Youtube for example.
Promoting a free format is great, but not when they are doing so at the expense of the finest video format we have available on the internet—a format which, to boot, is the only competitor to Flash at this time. If they made this move for customers they would have supported both.
 
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