Dan Wineman, who is smart, wrote this in the middle of some tumblings from other smart folks about why it’s ok if Mozilla takes an ideological stance in this whole HTML 5 video thing. Go Dan!

Zealots they may be, but Mozilla is one of the very small number of well-funded groups actually fighting to keep the web open and free. Apple’s anti-Flash position also works in the service of that goal, but only by coincidence: Apple’s and Mozilla’s interests happen to align there, because Apple doesn’t control Flash. In this area, they don’t, because Appledoescontrol QuickTime. The Mozilla Foundation are the good guys. They led us out of the Dark Times when nothing worked on any browser but Internet Explorer. Let’s not forget that.