On Dec 10, 2007 12:00 PM, Michael Wiktowy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Starting a new topic thread since I don't want to hijack the parent one: > I really don't understand Nokia's hesitation wrt supporting ogg > officially. In fact, they seem to be actively surpressing it as an > emerging standard. (ref: > http://www.w3.org/2007/08/video/positions/Nokia.pdf ). I would love to > hear the reasoning behind calling ogg "proprietary" and why Nokia > Maemo devs won't touch ogg with a 10 foot pole while seeming to remain > (morally) supportive here.
That document reads to me like a defense of the status quo from an established market player who doesn't mind the IP regime (since they already directly or indirectly license MPEG4/MP3) but instead very much minds the idea of competition from the kind of small device manufacturers who _might_ be able to compete if they didn't have to license those codecs. Not that I believe that there are hoards of potential device manufacturers out there ready to release the next great internet device, frustrated only by the lack of a patent-free "standard" for "Internet Video." But it is ironic that they chose to use the word "proprietary" to describe Ogg: the justification for that description seems to lie in points 2, 4 and 6 in the "Possible requirements for codecs..." section. At any rate, this is supposed to be a developers' list, so I'll shut up now. Dave _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
