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The risk of the unknown is worse than the risk of H264 license fees. Theora and other OSS codecs will be legally tested sooner or later. Until they are tested t
by jsz0 17y ago
The risk of the unknown is worse than the risk of H264 license fees. Theora and other OSS codecs will be legally tested sooner or later. Until they are tested they will be at a huge disadvantage. Why not get it over with? Arguing that you don't like IP law, or you personally have faith these codecs don't violate someone's IP, or they shouldn't be legally tested is a head-in-the-sand perspective.
- tuxychandru 17y agoH.264 also needs to be legally tested to confirm that they do not infringe on patents held by entities other than those forming the MPEG LA. So there is just as much risk of the unknown in H.264 as in Theora.