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List:       whatwg
Subject:    Re: [whatwg] Video Tag Proposal
From:       Monty Montgomery <xiphmont () gmail ! com>
Date:       2010-03-31 8:26:47
Message-ID: t2w806dafc21003310126p16e47f8dyea0d03b77ef96c2f () mail ! gmail ! com
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> It's from speaking to people at companies who've been bitten by this.
> (It works something like "you will be ineligible for this substantial
> discount if you implement Vorbis.") No quotable citation, sorry.

It's the loophole that makes RAND potentially meaningless.  Everyone
supposedly pays a 'non-discriminitory' base 'fair' price for licensing
that is rather high, but just about everyone who 'plays nice' gets a
substantial discount.  Compete with a pool member and watch the
'discount' evaporate.

Ironically, this practice also led directly to some of Vorbis's early
funding, though it mostly cuts the other way.

Monty
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