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Except that the H.264 standard has been fantastic for consumers. I can get video from my Canon DSLR or Android phone, edit it in Final Cut Pro, save it to YouTu
by taligent 14y ago
Except that the H.264 standard has been fantastic for consumers. I can get video from my Canon DSLR or Android phone, edit it in Final Cut Pro, save it to YouTube and watch it on my iPad. Or use the huge array of competitors e.g. Nikon, Premiere, Vimeo, Nexus 10.
You seem to be arguing that standards prevent competition. When in fact they cause it to flourish.
- buster 14y agoYou don't seem to understand that i am all for open standards but against a monopoly, against so called "standards" that are defended by use of patents instead of innovation. The MPEG-LA is forcing a standard on people by misuse of patents. I'm certainly very much pro-standard! The same as i am against Office Open XML (a standard as well) but for OpenDocument Format (yet another standard). To put it into one sentence: A standard should NEVER ever be controlled/represented/defended by a group of companies with monetary interests. If you have a monetary interest in upholding a standard it is clear that you will try to prevent competition.
- cooldeal 14y ago> A standard should NEVER ever be controlled/represented/defended by a group of companies with monetary interests. You mean like VP8/WebM by Google?
- cromwellian 14y agoOnce something is unencumbered, there is nothing to stop forking. For example, Mozilla could take VP8, use a new container, evolve the codec, etc. There's the difference. You try and fork H.264 you get sued. The fundamental freedom in "open" is freedom to fork. Everyone forgets that.
- buster 14y agoVP8 and WebM are formats, not standards. Interesting read: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebM https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebM