Re:Microsoft backs H.264.
by haberman on Wednesday February 02, 2011 @02:17PM
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> Google's engineers are making the call and the counsel is just providing legal advice. The legal counsel doesn't know what is infringing on what.
[citation needed]
What makes you think that a big company with enormous potential for legal liability would let engineers make decisions that are of legal consequence, like whether to aggressively push a video format amidst a patent minefield?
Do you think the engineers wrote the patent license too?
[citation needed]
What makes you think that a big company with enormous potential for legal liability would let engineers make decisions that are of legal consequence, like whether to aggressively push a video format amidst a patent minefield?
Do you think the engineers wrote the patent license too?