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You're quite right, but I think its ridiculous to ask Google to give you a free license to their patents even as you are suing them for infringing yours.
by spiffworks 16y ago
You're quite right, but I think its ridiculous to ask Google to give you a free license to their patents even as you are suing them for infringing yours.
- kenjackson 16y agoThey're the ones pushing that this be the defactor standard for web video. If that's the case then they shouldn't attempt to block a party from exercising their patent rights by effectively threatening that if they do so they won't have any access to video on the web. Could you imagine MS saying in their Windows license agreement saying that they can revoke your licenses if you sue them over a patent?
- archangel_one 16y agoYes, I can imagine that quite clearly. It wouldn't be the most repressive clause in that license agreement.
- kenjackson 16y agoAFACT there is no clause in the Windows license that MS could invoke that would prevent you from entering a complete industry. Google's position is literally... screw with us, and if WebM catches on, you can't do video on the internet.
- vetinari 16y agoAnd that's why nobody sane will try to screw with them. Nobody wants to lose the ability to do video on the internet during next 20 (plus/minus) years.
- kenjackson 16y agoAnd that doesn't bother you? They're basically saying, "We may have stolen your technology... oh well, it's ours now. We run the internet." I guess as long as Google is pushing the technology that "you" like they can do no evil.
- vetinari 16y agoThat "We may have stolen your technology" is pushing it. Google did due diligence before buying On2 with VP8. They did patent search. If anyone appears now with some patent claim against VP8, suing left and right users of VP8, it does not show good faith on their part.