Don't say I didn't warn you: http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/20100520/googles-royalty-free-webm-video-may-not-be-royalty-free-for-long Don't get me wrong, I'll be as ecstatic as any of you to see Theora and VP8 succeed, I just see the patent system as far more insidious than I think many of you do. Shayne
On 05/21/2010 02:34 PM, Shayne Wissler wrote:> Don't say I didn't warn you: > > http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/20100520/googles-royalty-free-webm-video-may-not-be-royalty-free-for-long > > Don't get me wrong, I'll be as ecstatic as any of you to see Theora > and VP8 succeed, I just see the patent system as far more insidious > than I think many of you do. > > > Shayne > _______________________________________________ > theora mailing list > theora at xiph.org > http://lists.xiph.org/mailman/listinfo/theora >Shayne, with all due respect, it didn't really take a lot of insight to see this coming. MPEG-LA doesn't do anything BUT manage patent pools. it's their sole purpose of existence. Google's license for WebM even factors this stuff in, to a degree.
On Fri, 21 May 2010 12:34:43 -0600 Shayne Wissler <wissler at gmail.com> wrote:> Don't say I didn't warn you: > > http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/20100520/googles-royalty-free-webm-video-may-not-be-royalty-free-for-long >err ... so what? What did you expect somebody whose whole existence depends on patents to say? i say let him "assemble his licence pool" ... people claimed they would do against theora for years, nothing happend. where is steve jobs magical license pool he announced recently. i think what MPEG-LA is _really_ afraid of is fighting it out and loosing ... FUD serves their purposes much better. startx