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Re:Statement by Apple by tedunangst on Thursday February 07, 2013 @07:00PM (#5185344)
Does it benefit Apple? Is the lifetime cost of H264 patent licensing more than the cost to buy out all the patents?
Re:Statement by Apple by shmerl on Thursday February 07, 2013 @09:15PM (#5185897)
I think it does - it creates interoperability for video on the Web. It benefits everyone including Apple. But they don't think in such terms or pretend that its not relevant. And anyway - they should profit from creating technology, and not from sitting on the pile of patents. But Apple is Apple.