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I bet you would love it. But think about it. Motorola can now extort ridiculous royalties from every company that provides: DVD Players, Projectors, Video Came

• muyuu 15y ago
  The current situation is a joke. No small player can get above the radar at basically anything software or else they risk being sued out of business. Big players calculate their movements because they all have a big portfolio and they reach agreements. Most people cannot resort to this. Hopefully a clusterfuck between two industry giants will cause a fundamental change in the rules of the game. I wish all the devices you mentioned would be outlawed overnight to force a decided reaction. I'm willing to go full OSS and open formats, I'm mostly there anyway. Remember static GIFs? Here's hoping they do enforce all these patents to the fullest.
• beagle3 15y ago
  Yes! And they should! The reply people on HN have been giving about these issues is "Don't hate the players, hate the game". I say it's a false dichotomy. You can hate both the game and the players. But I love players who, like Motorola is doing here, demonstrate that and make everyone hate the game.