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

[Chris Jones]

Hi

Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> 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

Except that, as creators of a fair amount of software, they presumably
have plenty of patents themselves, have done due diligence on their own
software and have various cross-licencing deals in place and may well
have established prior art for a lot of what they do.

> business.  The submarine patent issue just sounds like a convenient
> excuse

What's your theory as to why they don't want Ogg support in the HTML
standard then? Are they evil companies who want to torpedo open source?
That would be pretty strange since they both base products (in Apple's
case, quite substantially) on FOSS of various kinds.

Cheers,
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