Why Linux has problems with proprietary multimedia...

[Ralph Mack]

On 3/5/2010 6:27 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote:
> Joshua Judson Rosen<rozzin at geekspace.com>  writes:
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> And, actually..., I saw came upon these interesting articles the other day:
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>      http://bemasc.net/wordpress/2010/02/02/no-you-cant-do-that-with-h264/
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>      http://www.wedding-day-beauty.com/tag/final-cut
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>
> ... which reveal that even "Apple and Microsoft have paid up royalties..."
> is only really about half-true:
>    
So what it really comes down to is not who is in compliance with the 
patent but who the patent-holders permit to violate their patent, how 
well the patent holder was compensated to look the other way, and 
whether at some future date the organization in this state of grace 
manages to irritate the patent holder enough that the patent holder goes 
after them anyway.

A near-perfect state of the eternal  absence of real freedom for all 
players involved, no matter how much they pay for it.
Dispensing injustice with consummate fairness. :)

Ralph