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. We may just have to wait for the patents to expire on some older but still viable codecs, much like eventually happened with GIF. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
