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Money is necessary. IP rights are a general and flexible tool to funnel money into research. AV1 is basically funded by Google as a quasi-charitable endeavor,
by peoplewindow 9y ago
Money is necessary. IP rights are a general and flexible tool to funnel money into research.
AV1 is basically funded by Google as a quasi-charitable endeavor, as far as I can tell. Whilst there may be several apparent funders like Mozilla, they in turn trace their funding to Google.
"Research funding by Google" is never going to be a tactic that policymakers take seriously, and rightly so, even if it happens to be doing a lot of good work in this particular time period.
- xiphmont 9y ago>AV1 is basically funded by Google as a quasi-charitable endeavor Nothing charitable about it. They want to make money. So do a bunch of other companies. And they've realized the way to win that game is to relinquish control over the fundamental/infrastructural pieces. That also has some beneficial aspects beyond 'a rising tide lifts all boats', but I feel more comfortable appealing to reliable motivations. The benefits to others aren't an accident, and they're important to e.g. us at Xiph, but let's not ascribe industry interest to anything more charitable than 'enlightened self-interest'.