[whatwg] Patent on VP3 / Apple

[Manuel Amador (Rudd-O)]

Dave, 

I just received a rather disturbing comment (if it is true) on my Web site.  
And I quote:

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<p>Apple's position on this is very surprising.  Apple is ostensibly concerned 
about some unspecified legal risk from Theora.  However, Apple ships the 
flash plugin, including the VP6 codec, which is based on the same VP3 code as 
Theora.  Therefore, if there were some undisclosed patent, Apple is already 
at risk.   They would take little additional risk shipping a theora 
decoder.</p>

<p>This leaves only two plausible explanations for Apple's 
behavior.  Either:</p>

<p>1) Apple's real motivation is to promote Quicktime by sabotaging Ogg</p>

<p>or</p>

<p>2) Adobe is indemnifying Apple against a patent lawsuit over the Flash 
plugin</p>
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Is there anything truthful / false in this comment?  I'm only airing it here 
to give you a chance so it doesn't stick as a rumor -- this particular 
comment has been making its rounds (see Technorati, for example).
-- 

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