This confirms it is not enough for open codecs to exist.
Proprietary codecs need to be vanished outright. Stop all use and remove support from websites, browsers and such (exception for e.g. ffmpeg for preservation). Require open codecs everywhere.
Fight as a block against patent trolls. And lobby to fix the patent system.
Which ones, though? Dropping patented codecs from software sounds great, but it may just make the industry angry about the ones that seem open but are likely to have patent risks.
If this is confirmed, this is nasty, really nasty.
If Trump could make america great again while fixing the US patent system... Maths (then algorithms aka software), data design, etc, should be excluded from patent scope.
On my side, I would even abolish the patent system as a whole to replace it with some sort of "sciences/high tech/industrial" directory. This directory would contain only "big" 'sciences/high tech/industrial' stuff which requires _really_ super difficult and long and expensive _ R&D.
If people don't want to use a "thing" in this directory, free to them to do the R&D again without being threaten by patent legal stuff!
>Maths (then algorithms aka software), data design, etc, should be excluded from patent scope.
So should ISAs. Interoperability should trump all.
I expect as RISC-V takes off, we will see the legacy ISA owners engage an ugly legal fight against companies using x86 emulation in their RISC-V based products. This is not an unlikely development.
And it will not end favorably, as they cannot possibly fight the entire industry.
Proprietary codecs need to be vanished outright. Stop all use and remove support from websites, browsers and such (exception for e.g. ffmpeg for preservation). Require open codecs everywhere.
Fight as a block against patent trolls. And lobby to fix the patent system.
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