At 2:19 +0000 12/12/07, Ian Hickson wrote:
I would much rather Apple not implement HTML5 at all, so I can call
Apple out on it in the marketplace, than to let an encumbered technology
be ensconced in a standard like HTML5.
I entirely agree that it would be unacceptable for HTML5 to require
encumbered technology.
++ "without an appropriate grant of license" (I think almost all
codecs have some encumbrances -- the BBC owns patents in Dirac, for
example; the question is the nature of the license.)
--
David Singer
Apple/QuickTime
