NPR station WBUR Boston has announced that it will begin streaming content in OGG format. This is great news since now another major organization has embraced open formats.

While the people most excited about this announcement are almost certainly going to be the Linux users, everyone should really be excited about it. For some reason it seems like open formats are Linux community vs. big companies when really it should be everyone vs. big companies. Even a person who loves Windows and hates Linux should support open formats. Think about it. What con is there to open standards? What pro is there for proprietary formats?

There is really no reason why the issue of open formats vs. propriatary formats is only a Linux issue. Hopefully through the work of the FSF and through places like NPR adopting open formats, this will become a bigger issue that gets more attention outside of the Linux community.

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