- From: Nils Dagsson Moskopp <nils-dagsson-moskopp@dieweltistgarnichtso.net>
- Date: Mon, 08 Jun 2009 02:56:43 +0200
Am Montag, den 08.06.2009, 09:42 +0900 schrieb Chris DiBona: > I'm perfectly calm, what people need to realize is that this issue is > actually not about submarined patents (more like aircraft carrier > patents) or tricky corner cases for the lgpl., That sounds too qood to be true ? so can we throw that argument out then and ask Nokia and Apple why they won't pull a Google and just implement both h264 and Theora natively ? > but that the internet > users prefer more quality in their codecs/megabyte/second. So long as > this is true this issue will not be resolvable cleanly and the kind of > puritism that Robert mentioned is achievable only upon expiration of > said patents or dramatic quality improvements of the free codecs. Well, Vorbis seems to be performing better than MPEG Layer 3 bitrate-wise, but wasn't really a killer. So I don't really buy that argument. Same about FLAC vs. WAV. > You can claim Humians as much as you like, the rest of us are trying > to ship software here. I was just tryin' to keep the discussion fair. Rhetoric tricks are something for politicians, not suitable for an engineering discussions I believe we are having here. Cheers, -- Nils Dagsson Moskopp <http://dieweltistgarnichtso.net>
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