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The primary gopher killer was around February 1993 the University of Minnesota announced that it would charge licensing fees for the use of its implementation o
by dwheeler 6y ago
The primary gopher killer was around February 1993 the University of Minnesota announced that it would charge licensing fees for the use of its implementation of the Gopher server. In contrast, CERN said anyone could implement the WWW. Practically all implementation work from then on used the WWW. In addition, the gopher developers wouldn't work (basically) with open standards groups like the IETF.
By trying to control & license everything, they lost everything.
- Polylactic_acid 6y agoI wonder what will happen to the next gen of video codecs. The proprietary video codec is on the verge of collapse with most new devices now shipping AV1 decoders and streaming services looking at switching to AV1 when available.
- gfxgirl 6y agoHas apple accounted AV1 support in MacOS and iOS? (sorry if I missed it. That would be great news)
- Polylactic_acid 6y agoThey are in the group behind AV1 but they have yet to support it. VLC on iOS can play it however so maybe streaming apps could include their own decoders while waiting for apple. It looks like netflix is using AV1 for android users right now and TVs are coming with AV1 support now.
- dwheeler 6y agoGood riddance to proprietary codecs.