Re:OS X El Capitan License: in Plain English
by nitrogen on Sunday October 18, 2015 @05:39AM
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MPEG-LA had a very long time to assemble their VP8 pool, but nothing ever materialized. The impression I got was that Google paid them for silence, in a way that let them save face. Regardless, it's a clear sign that patents are failing our society when it might be impossible to write a free video codec from scratch.
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Re:OS X El Capitan License: in Plain English
by walterbell on Sunday October 18, 2015 @01:00PM
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When will the patents expire? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPEG_LA suggests that new patents are being added to the pool and full licensing fees are needed even if 999 patents are expired and 1 is active.