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byAnonymous Coward writes:
I hope you like shitty looking, processor hogging, absurdly terrible flash video, because we are stuck with it until someone (I'm looking at you, Apple) takes their head out of their ass.
Fucking Apple. You can't trust those turtleneck wearing fascists.
bynine-times ( 778537 ) writes:
It would be nice if Apple would go ahead and support OGG Vorbis and OGG Theora. Can any lawyerly folk give an idea of the worst possible scenario here? Someone steps forward claiming to have patented something in OGG, and Apple is forced to either strip support or pay a licensing fee?
On the other hand, their method of supporting the video tag seems somewhat reasonable. It looks like any format that Quicktime supports, Safari will support in the "video" tag. It's not hard to go download the OGG Theora c
bytimster ( 32400 ) writes:
Well, with a "submarine" patent, the patent holder will typically wait until the "invention" is in common use, THEN sue for retroactive damages. Those sorts of awards can get very expensive.
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