Re:Skype goes VP8, embraces open video codec
by pyre on Wednesday August 03, 2011 @10:05PM
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It's not open until they release something. Calling it 'apparently' open might apply if there was something open released, but maybe not updated frequently enough. Using 'supposedly' is probably a better use of terms here.
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Re:Skype goes VP8, embraces open video codec
by Toady on Thursday August 04, 2011 @01:13AM
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It's like when Google calls Android "open" but then withholds the source from non-privileged partners.
Re:Skype goes VP8, embraces open video codec
by scotu on Thursday August 04, 2011 @09:17AM
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Google fulfills the requirements of the licenses of android, that are open. So it is open. Do I like the way they do so?
Not so much, but it was necessary to do something against uglifications from the device makers, since seams that google is not willing/able to produce its own canon android hardware (and get the bigger slice of the android devices market, to make it actually canon).