Comments on: Nokia: Ogg is “proprietary technology”

By: Play Ogg — skullbochs

Play Ogg — skullbochs — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 16:15:16 +0000

[...] was removed after an objection by Apple and Nokia (backing the proprietary MPEG-4 formats) for very flimsy reasons. Nevertheless, Firefox, Opera, and Chrome are all going to implement Vorbis and Theora relatively [...]

By: Shawn

Shawn — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 00:16:24 +0000

The FSF endorses OGG. See: http://www.fsf.org/resources/formats/playogg

Quite frankly, when the specification is in the public domain and fully open source there is nothing “proprietary” about it.

For an example of what even a tiny amount of real proprietary code will do, have a look at the Firefox/IceWeazle controversy. Seriously, if OGG was in *any* an issue, we’d be hearing these same sort of OSS complaints regarding it. We don’t because it doesn’t exist even at the ridiculously low threshold that created the Firefox trouble.

Also in news this week, Nokia is considering a revenue sharing model similar to Apple’s. Ouch.

By: Tilman

Tilman — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 13:45:42 +0000

Why doesn’t Nokia buy something like this:

http://insurance.cch.com/rupps/patent-infringement-liability-insurance.htm

No idea what that would cost, however… I think, it should be rather cheap because the chance that such a submarine ascends is probably very low.