Stefan Schreiber <st...@mail.telepac.pt> a écrit : > If it < doesn't > cost to include AVC and AAC into web > browsers/plugins etc., maybe it is/was about Open Source principles? > (Any discussion leads to nothing, because I tend to see this in a > pragmatic way. For others it is about "open lifestyle". The same > people still buy an iPhone or an Android phone, both OS environments > definitively not "open". Linux admittedly is.)
The Android OS is "open", although not entirely: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_%28operating_system%29#Licensing The Replicant OS is a fork of Android, using only free software (except from some bootloaders and drivers): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replicant_%28operating_system%29 > In any case, we probably agree. The difference is that I don't > believe that in this case patents will matter a lot. > IF there will be some 3D audio patent fee, it will be for handset > makers/headpone makers etc. But don't worry about Apple or Samsung, > they won't die. It does matter; there must be ways to promote and use ambisonics without playing the games of Apple, Google, Samsung, MPEG LA and other patent trollers. Here's an interesting article: http://www.forbes.com/sites/forbesleadershipforum/2012/11/15/a-powerful-new-weapon-against-patent-trolls/ Quotes: "Apple and Google, the world’s two top innovators, now spend more on patents and patent litigation than on research and development." ..."small and midsize companies with less than $1 billion in revenues now constitute 90% of the unique defendants in patent troll suits. Firms with less than $100 million in revenue represent 66% of the defendants." ..." a staggering 89% of all patents reviewed by the USPTO are judged either partly or wholly invalid." > The IETF or Xiph.org would probably demand something completely > patent-free. Think that the "next generation surround" is something > like MP3 or DD+. The first codec is an MPEG standard, the second is > owned by Dolby. By any interpretation or say "standard" :-) , MP3 is > more open than DD+. (Known technological base.) The "next generation surround" is anything we want, but I hope that ambisonics will stay patent free. -- Marc _______________________________________________ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound
