- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 10:33:25 +0000 (UTC)
On Wed, 12 Dec 2007, Stewart Brodie wrote: > Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch> wrote: > > > There is no way we can ever guarantee that there are no covering > > patents. Whether a patent covers a technology or not really has more > > to do with what the courts say than with what the patents say. If > > Apple say they don't want to implement Ogg, then we have to find > > another solution. > > > > (Similarly -- Opera, Mozilla, et al, don't want to implement H.264. So > > we have to find a solution other than H.264.) > > Is there any codec that would satisfy everybody? I doubt it, to be > honest. Currently there are no known codecs that satisfy everyone; if there were, we'd have picked it and moved on by now. However, that could change; there are people investigating this as we speak. (Indeed there's a whole conference about this and related issues this week in San Jose.) -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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