Microsoft: Motorola and Google are trying to 'kill video on the Web'

[Guest]

very funny when the story was about mortorla suing apple for that amount, everyone was like YEA, Good, Burn Them etc.... now that is ms everyone is not saying that.... fads.... so old...

 

[RH00D]

Guest said:
[...]

Here are some royalty-free audio codecs:

http://www.vorbis.com/
http://opus-codec.org/

Here are some royalty-free video codecs:

http://www.webmproject.org (WebM uses Vorbis for audio, VP8 for video, and the WebM container format)
http://www.theora.org
http://diracvideo.org/

[...]

Thanks for the info, Guest. Appreciated!

 

[TJGeezer]

mario said:
If Google doesn't like software patents, no one does only big companies, maybe instead of spending $12 billion on Motorola Mobility for its patents, they should better spend that money lobbying in D.C. for patent reform.

Do you really think the U.S. congress is capable of doing anything to benefit anyone but the biggest corporations, except under extreme public pressure? That'd be something new, wouldn't it...

 

[Guest]

"By comparison, to use H.264, Microsoft also has to license 2,300 more patents from 29 other firms."
wah. whining from the monopolistic bully that has had its way and amassed billions and billions

 

[Archean]

@Guest #29
It doesn't mean one may allow another company to 'bully' others just for the sake of their own good right? In this specific case Google is absurdly wrong, it is the whiner which is unable to shed the accusation of patent theft, hence it is trying to get even by flouting FRAND.

 

[Guest]

Right so your best alternative is to get rid of Windows altogether and problem solved. Hint Ubuntu is a pretty good FREE OS.

 

[Guest]

Wall Street and their skveeing sleezebag lawyers are going to kill the internet, yet.

 

[Guest]

Just goes to show how hopeless the world is.

You take something we all use and love, and somebody has to come along and try to rape everybody to make a buck. It's sad that it's Google and Motorola this time, but it also shows that most big companies are the same. $$$ over ethics.

 

[Guest]

Would you not agree its time these stupid patent laws are dropped... its getting better and better every single day, isn't it?

 

[Guest]

Some people reading and posting here are forgetting the bigger picture. Apple and M$ have been relentlessly attacking Android with questionable patents. If they want to play the patent game, then let them play. Google has every right to defend itself and it's doing so here. Notice that Google isn't going out and strong-arming any and all competition the way M$ does. Google is specifically targeting M$ because of the ridiculous licensing fees against Android OEMs.

Lesson to M$ and crApple: If you play with fire, expect to get burned.

 

[Archean]

The biggest issue with this argument is that no body has 'questioned' these 'questionable patents', instead every manufacturer just decided to pay to patent holders, which proves just one point, i.e. Google has been a blatant thief in the first place. However, I do believe that any such payments must be within reason. So far, it is Google which has been benefiting one way or another of this theft while leaving its partners to fend off for themselves.