On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 6:42 PM, Joseph Mocker <mock at sun.com> wrote: > Alan Coopersmith wrote: >> >> Orvar Korvar wrote: >> >>> >>> Solaris does not have codecs. SUN didnt pay the license costs, I believe. >>> >> >> Remember, OpenSolaris is designed to be freely redistributable by anyone, >> so including them in OpenSolaris requires paying for a world-wide, >> unlimited copy, freely sublicensable license, or basically getting >> permission to be the last license the patent holders ever can sell, >> because no one else would need to buy after that. ? One can only imagine >> how many billions of dollars they could ask in exchange for giving up >> all future license sales. >> >> > > I wonder how much of the price of a copy of Windows 7 or OS X can be > attributed to licensing fees (of codecs and such) > > :-) > > ?--joe
Probably a big reason why Apple always tries to 'convince' their consumers to use AAC/mov and Microsoft has WMV. IMHO not superior to MP3/DivX. But at the same time they see the cash machine of forcing other vendors to buy their format's license, hence no support for OGG Theora/Vorbis. Luis
