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>The deal makes it free (as in beer) for everybody. No, it only makes it free (as in beer) for those who will (and is supported) use the Cisco binary.
by gillianseed 13y ago
>The deal makes it free (as in beer) for everybody.
No, it only makes it free (as in beer) for those who will (and is supported) use the Cisco binary.
- alcari 13y agoWillingness to use it doesn't affect how free (as in beer) it is. It does affect how free (as in speech) it is, but that's not what the grandparent was arguing, and there's a huge difference between the two.
- gillianseed 13y agoYou are now reliant to the benevolence of Cisco to provide binaries for the system of your choice if you want to make use of WebRTC royalty free.
- ZeroGravitas 13y agoActually, assuming that MPEG-LA allows this Cisco scheme to happen then any corporation who's at the MPEG-LA yearly cap could offer this same scheme for free (and no cost to themselves) too e.g. possibly Google, Microsoft, Apple.