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The EU is randomly investigating the Alliance for Open Media on antitrust concerns -- https://www.reuters.com/technology/exclusive-eu-antitrust-regulators-probi

• 2OEH8eoCRo0 4y ago
  > randomly The Commission has information that AOM and its members may be imposing licensing terms (mandatory royalty-free cross licensing) on innovators that were not a part of AOM at the time of the creation of the AV1 technical, but whose patents are deemed essential to (its) technical specifications Sounds worth looking into.
  • ksec 4y ago
    On HN, it is Rust, RISC-V and then AOM that can do no wrong. And then it is Facebook and Oracle that can do no right.
  • account42 4y ago
    Only if you believe that investigating software patents are in the public's best interest.
• rodgerd 4y ago
  > Can anyone understand how it's in anyone's best interest to investigate / potentially stop an open source standard / royalty-free format that has buy-in from tons of big orgs? Because "using my monopolistic profits in one area to destroy your business in another area" is textbook anticompetitive behaviour.
  • mikeyouse 4y ago
    I guess I get it but is anyone aside from the rent-seeking royalty holders worse off if open standards win out?