[whatwg] Video Tag Proposal

> It's from speaking to people at companies who've been bitten by this.
> (It works something like "you will be ineligible for this substantial
> discount if you implement Vorbis.") No quotable citation, sorry.

It's the loophole that makes RAND potentially meaningless.  Everyone
supposedly pays a 'non-discriminitory' base 'fair' price for licensing
that is rather high, but just about everyone who 'plays nice' gets a
substantial discount.  Compete with a pool member and watch the
'discount' evaporate.

Ironically, this practice also led directly to some of Vorbis's early
funding, though it mostly cuts the other way.

Monty

Received on Wednesday, 31 March 2010 01:26:47 UTC