[Gllug] [Fwd: [piksel] Outrageous disaster: Ogg/Vorbis spec taken out of HTML-5]

[salsaman at xs4all.nl]

On Tue, December 18, 2007 19:10, Richard Huxton wrote:
> Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
>> On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 05:20:27PM +0000, Alain Williams wrote:
>>> The trouble seems to be submarine patents. There is no way of saying
>>> out loud:
>>>
>>> 	We are going to be using this technology, if you have a patent
>>> 	speak now or forever hold your peace.
>>>
>>> The onus is on a s/ware developer/... to dig through all patents, and
>>> then
>>> wait for the one that hasn't been made public to come & hit him.
>>
>> The worry about submarine patents can apply to basically *any* software
>> these days given the crazy stuff approved by the USPTO. So if this is
>> their big worry, Apple & Nokia should just get out of the software
>> business.  The submarine patent issue just sounds like a convenient
>> excuse
>
> The thing is, I've not seen anyone come up with a good reason why Apple
> & Nokia *should* back Ogg/etc. It's not easy for me to see what they (or
> for that matter anyone outside of the "free from patents" community) get
> from it.
>

Because they are supposedly helping to create the HTML standard, a
standard which exists for the benefit of the world, not for the benefit of
one or two software companies.


Gabriel.


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