[Advocacy] Re: This is a sad day for interoperability in the Web

[Ivo Emanuel Gonçalves]

On 8/22/07, Diego Biurrun <diego at biurrun.de> wrote:
> > H.264 and HE-AAC
> Since when, pray tell, are these standards proprietary?

Since those are highly patented, witrh visible and submarine patents,
and their standard, while you can read it, you can't do snuff to it.
Not the same with an Open Media standard.  For instance, Monty and
Jean-Marc are working on an experimental audio format called Ghost,
and the whole process is open.  You can have a say if you want.

It is illegal to create and use a free software implementation of
H.264 and HE-AAC in the United States and other jurisdictions without
purchase of a license.

Did you also see the Adobe developer's comments that you will need an
extra license to use those technologies on a commercial web site?  I
think the words he used were: "friendly license process"

We offer the world formats to power the Internet and beyond.  The
people behind MPEG-4 offer their clients formats to power products.  I
think there's a difference there.

-Ivo