According to this article on Slashdot, Theora, the totally free and open-sourced video codec has reached version 1.0 and will be supported by upcoming versions of the browsers Firefox and Opera. The final release of the standard will allow anyone, anywhere, to create and play videos unencumbered by patents and other licensing issues. Congrats to the developers, and let's start seeing some open-videos that use the new HTML5 "VIDEO" element....