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It was in the announcement keynote. They said it would be open, which never happened due to patent issues.
by eknkc 10y ago
It was in the announcement keynote. They said it would be open, which never happened due to patent issues.
- artursapek 10y agoI'm stunned that this is still a problem we're wasting so much time and money on in this world.
- IshKebab 10y agoHow would patent issues stop it being an open standard? H.264 is an open standard but still subject to patents.
- jpalomaki 10y agoMaybe the problem was that they had to change the original design due patent issues and with the new design (proxy servers etc) the openness would not have worked out so well.
- gwright 10y agoBecause the patent owners bought into the intellectual property regime created by H.264. H.264 happened because the patent owners agreed to the standard not because the H.264 committee had some sort of legal authority to ignore the patent owners.
- xenadu02 10y agoVirnetX claims to have patents covering the P2P mechanism behind the original FaceTime. Originally it worked similar to iMessage in that you had a system to exchange identities but the actual communication was all P2P after that. Apple had to change it to use their servers to get around the patents (which VirnetX claimed wasn't enough and was still infringing). Once that changed there was no point in releasing it as an open standard since it required Apple's servers to operate. If VirnetX prevails then Skype, Google Hangouts, and everyone else is infringing too and VirnetX will use the precedent to go after them as well. It's a common strategy: go after a couple of people first, establish a win, then use that to leverage settlements out of the remaining players.