Is this model better? When a company develops technology with the purpose of selling the technology, it’s incentives are predictable. But what are the incentives where technology is bankrolled by companies that don’t make money from the technology, but through something else they sell? Facebook is funding these codecs because it helps their business of data mining your personal information. How is that a better state of affairs?
There is no free lunch. At least when the cost of a patent license gets bundled into your Blu-Ray player, you know what you’re paying.
There is no free lunch. At least when the cost of a patent license gets bundled into your Blu-Ray player, you know what you’re paying.