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Steve Jobs himself said a couple of days ago: All video codecs are covered by patents. A patent pool is being assembled to go after Theora and other “open sour
by DrJokepu 17y ago
Steve Jobs himself said a couple of days ago:
All video codecs are covered by patents. A patent pool is being assembled to go after Theora and other “open source” codecs now. Unfortunately, just because something is open source, it doesn’t mean or guarantee that it doesn’t infringe on others patents. An open standard is different from being royalty free or open source.
Source: http://blogs.fsfe.org/hugo/2010/04/open-letter-to-steve-jobs/ http://blogs.fsfe.org/hugo/2010/04/open-letter-to-steve-jobs...
- pavs 17y agoYou think Google doesn't know that? You think Google just spent $100 million without investigating on patent problems and how they will deal with them? Was Steve referring to VP8, its not opensource now, he is most likely only referring to existing open source codec.
- acg 17y agoFUD? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1312180 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1312180