"This is what hardball is like" is what their representative said. Essentially, it's plutocracy as normal.
I think it was Eric Scheirer who said that. Eric is not their representative. He is a Forrester Research analyst.
I guess he is not threating there, it seems like a warning to me. And Eric is probably one of the people to be taken most seriously when he talks about such issues. He is one of the authors of a different MPEG audio standard, MPEG-4 Structured Audio, developed when was in the MIT Media Lab.
This standard (MPEG-4-SA) is probably one of the few parts of MPEG which is patent free. It deals with algoritmic sound generation. Unfortunately there is no way (yet) to encode standard audio into such representation...
The final standard draft is available from their web pages:
In the cnet article, they also quote Eric saying that vorbis is a technology which is competitive with MP3. It seems it is not only Monty who thinks so...
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I think it was Eric Scheirer who said that. Eric is not their representative. He is a Forrester Research analyst.
I guess he is not threating there, it seems like a warning to me. And Eric is probably one of the people to be taken most seriously when he talks about such issues. He is one of the authors of a different MPEG audio standard, MPEG-4 Structured Audio, developed when was in the MIT Media Lab.
This standard (MPEG-4-SA) is probably one of the few parts of MPEG which is patent free. It deals with algoritmic sound generation. Unfortunately there is no way (yet) to encode standard audio into such representation...
The final standard draft is available from their web pages:
http://sound.media.mit.edu/~eds/mpeg4/
In the cnet article, they also quote Eric saying that vorbis is a technology which is competitive with MP3. It seems it is not only Monty who thinks so...