[whatwg] Codec mess with <video> and <audio> tags

[David Gerard]

2009/6/7 Geoffrey Sneddon <foolistbar at googlemail.com>:

> How is it incredible? Who has looked at the submarine patents? They by
> definition are unpublished! Yes, certainly, published patents are well
> researched, but this is not the objection that anyone has made to it.


It is not credible to claim that any other codec whatsoever does not
have the same problems - and paying Thomson or the MPEG-LA does *not*
protect one from submarine claims from others, as Microsoft found out
to its cost with MP3 - nor is it credible to claim that Ogg formats
have more such problems.


- d.