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At 99 cents for the add on, the decision to charge users smells more like a political decision than an economic one. The cost to Microsoft is undoubtedly far l
by otterley 6y ago
At 99 cents for the add on, the decision to charge users smells more like a political decision than an economic one. The cost to Microsoft is undoubtedly far less than that. 99 cents is basically the bare minimum you can charge when you accept credit cards as a method of payment.
- TD-Linux 6y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Efficiency_Video_Coding#Patent_license_terms https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Efficiency_Video_Coding#P... $0.20 for MPEG-LA, $0.40 for HEVC Advance, and "call us" for Technicolor and Velos Media. $0.99 doesn't sound far off.
- eggsnbacon1 6y agoThat's 1% of the cost of windows, for a video codec when there's already dozens of free alternatives
- otterley 6y agoThere’s a fixed cap on the royalty rate, so even if we assume Microsoft paid for a license for each copy of Windows sold to customers, on a per-copy basis it would be much less than 1%.