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Re:"I closed MPEG on 2 Jun '20 when I left because obscure f... by weinzierl on Thursday August 07, 2025 @10:44AM (#44825154)
"Free codecs only came along at all because Google decided to subsidize development but that became possible only 15 years or so after MPEG was born, and it's hardly a robust strategy"

I don't know about video codecs but MP3 (also part of MPEG) came out of Fraunhofer and was paid by German tax money. It should not have been patented in the first place (and wasn't in Germany).

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