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You 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
by buster 14y ago
You 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