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Re:Cisco's Open Source H.264 Codec by wmf on Thursday December 12, 2013 @04:04PM (#6897256)
Fluendo does this with MP3, but that license is only $50K instead of millions.

People proposed this idea repeatedly to Mozilla back in the day but they rejected it. Maybe they feel their hands are somehow cleaner if Cisco is paying instead of them.

Re:Cisco's Open Source H.264 Codec by gcb1 on Friday December 13, 2013 @03:50AM (#6899625)
moz would have to foot the 6mi.

cisco pays 6mi, and them mpegla returns 3mi to them for their patents in the pool. and if the format becomes ubiquitous, they get any few billions from this same pool from their competitors when they also license it.

they are still the bad guy in this.