On 03/17/11 04:38, David Brodbeck wrote:
On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 11:09 AM, Chad Perrin<per...@apotheon.com> wrote:
It's certainly true that video is a bit of a "sticky widget" with regard
to open standards. The moment someone develops something that is
verifiably free of patent encumbrances for video and doesn't just *suck*,
I expect that either it will achieve escape velocity in mere moments to
become the most widely deployed type of video in the world, or the guy
who created it will die under mysterious circumstances and his heirs will
somehow arrange to dummy up a patent application in his name with the
help of whoever's going to buy the patent from those heirs.
The problem is it'd have to be someone who's unemployed. ;) Any
software company is going to want to patent something that valuable;
they'd be failing their shareholders if they didn't.
Except a private company.
We may just have to wait for the patents to expire on some older but
still viable codecs, much like eventually happened with GIF.
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