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I think protomyth was referring to the fact that while the Theora folks loudly claim to be unencumbered by patents this is a completely untested assertion and i
by evgen 17y ago
I think protomyth was referring to the fact that while the Theora folks loudly claim to be unencumbered by patents this is a completely untested assertion and if such a patent were to show up they are without their own suite of patents with which to threaten the other party. MPEG-LA is covered by patents and has a licensing board, but the spec is also pretty-well vetted by various teams of lawyers and if someone tries to submarine a patent in they would find themselves facing a rather large, well-funded, and pissed off group with no qualms about burying the troll in counter-claims and long/expensive discovery, etc.
- protomyth 17y agoYep, you nailed what I meant but didn't spend enough time writing. I just get this feeling that, given the number of companies involved, the patent situation is a known quantity for MPEG-LA, whereas the situation around Theora hasn't been as well researched. Unless someone with a massive amount of lawyers starts the ball rolling, I really don't see hardware people building accelerators into chipsets for Theora like they have done for h.264.