Adinnieken said:
I think Microsoft's argument holds up with both technologies. I think any attempt by Moto to make the H.264 patents a profit center is unacceptable. Moto is guaranteed licensing based on the simple fact that H.264 is a standard. If a standards patent holder is allowed to unfairly license a patent than it puts the ultimate control of the winners and losers in the hands of the people who create the standard. The problem is, it's a standard that an industry as a whole has agreed to. If anyone has read anything about why the MPEG went with H.264 over Microsoft's V1, it was because the former was an open format (in that multiple companies were involved), where as Microsoft's was a proprietary format. The fear was that it would give one company too much control or power and Microsoft would abuse it. Now, we have Moto doing the same exact thing that MPEG was concerned Microsoft might do. |
Yes but is it guaranteed free?
From what I've gathered, and maybe I'm wrong, but MS included the codec without so much as contacting moto about it. Is that a correct assessment?
