- From: Dave Singer <singer@apple.com>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 12:19:05 +0300
At 10:10 +0100 25/06/07, Gervase Markham wrote: >Dave Singer wrote: >>What is more, no-one with deep pockets has yet used the Ogg codecs >>seriously, and therefore there is no "honey pot" to attract the >>submarines (hm, do submarines like honey?). This is not the case >>with H.264 and AAC, as we have made, um, some money using them, >>among others. > >If you had been making this argument before November last year, >would you have included MP3 in that list of "technologies people had >been making money from but which had attracted no submarines"? Yes, I think so. We are talking about the balance of probabilities here, not certainty. > >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcatel-Lucent_v._Microsoft shows that >this sort of argument about "deep pockets" and "so far" shouldn't >give Apple much confidence. MP3 was used by a lot of people with >deep pockets for quite a while before the submarine surfaced. This is an interesting case, but given that it's under appeal, I think it would be wrong for us to discuss it here, alas. -- David Singer Apple/QuickTime
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