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Why should Nokia help Google for free to reduce its licensing costs on things like Youtube when Google has used its search profits to dump a free mobile OS into
by recoiledsnake 14y ago
Why should Nokia help Google for free to reduce its licensing costs on things like Youtube when Google has used its search profits to dump a free mobile OS into the market thus hurting Nokia's profits? The "not willing to license" stuff is just legal posturing, there's a right price for the licenses which it wants Google to cough up from it's $50B cash. This has nothing to do with Microsoft either.
- rlanday 14y agoH.264 is royalty-free for free web broadcast, so I don’t think YouTube has to pay a per-video or per-user fee. Google probably has to pay a fee per encoder, but that seems like a relatively minor cost. They probably also have to pay a decoder fee for every copy of Chrome downloaded. If Microsoft’s pulling strings at Nokia, it’s probably because Google hypocritically tried to screw them over using Motorola’s H.264 patents: http://www.electronista.com/articles/13/03/22/one.patent.remains.to.be.heard.by.itc.in.this.battery.of.complaints/ http://www.electronista.com/articles/13/03/22/one.patent.rem... Does it really seem like Google’s acting in good faith here?