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Re:The Fight for Patent-Unencumbered Media Codecs Is Nearly Won by kelnos on Wednesday January 10, 2018 @04:16PM (#16119147)
What about them? Even if we have to wait 10 years or so to phase out support for those that don't support newer formats and can't be upgraded, that's still a win.
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Re:The Fight for Patent-Unencumbered Media Codecs Is Nearly Won by scarface74 on Wednesday January 10, 2018 @08:45PM (#16120868)
By then it won't matter. The patents on h.264 will have expired.
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Re:The Fight for Patent-Unencumbered Media Codecs Is Nearly Won by kelnos on Thursday January 18, 2018 @11:05PM (#16184073)
So what? Then we have to deal with the newer h.265 patents, and the even newer patents associated with whatever comes next.

Pushing open formats now means we develop a habit of only allowing open formats into industrial standards, which means in the medium and long term we all win with lower costs.

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