Comment Comment by johannes1234321 > Image formats are a relatively benign exampleGIF was, despite patents a dominating image format for a long time and PNG took quite a while to replace it.If we look at video codecs "open" variants are quite a small part. Heavily patented MPEG dominates the space over webm etc.> How about OS APIs?Windows still got a very successful proprietary API. (Or set of APIs)Yes, open standards and implementations are relevant, but it's not that clear win. parent johannes1234321 2 years ago
GIF was, despite patents a dominating image format for a long time and PNG took quite a while to replace it.
If we look at video codecs "open" variants are quite a small part. Heavily patented MPEG dominates the space over webm etc.
> How about OS APIs?
Windows still got a very successful proprietary API. (Or set of APIs)
Yes, open standards and implementations are relevant, but it's not that clear win.