Apple Insider on WebM
2010-05-24 20:19:45.518116+02 by Dan Lyke 0 comments
Apple Insider: Steve Jobs says no to Google's VP8 WebM codec is interesting on a couple of fronts. The notion that the video space is so sewn up with patents right now that people are staying away from it kind of gives lie to the phrase "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts...".
But the other thing is the severe lack of perspective, for instance:
Those insisting on calling H.264 "proprietary" because it is not completely free have never referred to other open, but not free standards (including the MP3 audio format), as "proprietary." ...
Okay, that's just freakin' ignorant. Maybe it's that I was close to ground zero around that time, when Gracenote had distribution rights for the Frauenhofer patents, but... uh... yeah.