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Vultures coming to take claims to a codec which, I understand, was fairly carefully built to be actually open. That it is only persecuting hardware inplementat
by rektide 4y ago
Vultures coming to take claims to a codec which, I understand, was fairly carefully built to be actually open.
That it is only persecuting hardware inplementations gives me little relief. Low power hardware blocks should be readily available & usable, be a great help to making computers & sound devices better, with low power consumption.
This is, as much as anything, a huge blow against making bluetooth generally good & better; a great potential general use codec, encumbered! Alas! Make sure we cant use anything but locked-in overpriced proprietary codecs. Keep standards from actually developing healthily, fighting a 10+ year old codec from growing. Everyone associated with this patent pool should be blocked from the OIN patent pool immediately & with malice. Alas OIN is too old to have defenses against these here new crust of aggro lawyering stasists.
- markvdb 4y agoHyenas, not vultures. Vultures don't hunt themselves.
- jvickers 4y agoWhat do you mean? Hyenas hunt hyenas? Hyenas hunt?
- markvdb 4y agoVultures are mainly carrion-eaters, scavengers. Hyenas mainly hunt actively, often in coordinated groups, and not just for the weakest animals. Opus being a healthy codec, and the attempt at a coordinated attack make the hyena analogy seems more appropriate, to me at least.
- Taniwha 4y agoWhat's even is a "hardware implementation"? does it include a PC consumer box the software?