From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 16 18:12:11 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 170621065677 for ; Wed, 16 Mar 2011 18:12:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gull@gull.us) Received: from mail-ew0-f54.google.com (mail-ew0-f54.google.com [209.85.215.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A97BB8FC13 for ; Wed, 16 Mar 2011 18:12:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy1 with SMTP id 1so567180ewy.13 for ; Wed, 16 Mar 2011 11:12:09 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.213.14.20 with SMTP id e20mr263543eba.28.1300299129388; Wed, 16 Mar 2011 11:12:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.14.119.1 with HTTP; Wed, 16 Mar 2011 11:12:09 -0700 (PDT) X-Originating-IP: [128.95.17.209] In-Reply-To: <20110316004351.GA6614@guilt.hydra> References: <20110307162153.0463fa73@atmarama.net> <20110307170014.GB65289@guilt.hydra> <4D7FE8E1.90600@herveybayaustralia.com.au> <20110315203753.55f1ec3b@scorpio> <20110316004351.GA6614@guilt.hydra> Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2011 11:12:09 -0700 Message-ID: From: David Brodbeck To: FreeBSD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Subject: Re: HAL must die! X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2011 18:12:11 -0000 On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 5:43 PM, Chad Perrin wrote: > The largest possible paying audience is generally everybody capable of > using an open standard. Since we're talking about video, though, it's worth noting that there don't appear to *be* any truly open video compression standards. They're *all* patent-encumbered. Google tried with VP8, but it looks like that may infringe patents as well. (It hasn't been settled in court, so it's hard to be sure, but some competitors are making rumblings about suing over it.)