Re; MPEG-4 patent licensing
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QuickTime 6 Is Out
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All in all it looks pretty fair. No royalties paid at all from not-for-profit uses and no end user royalties, although these will have to be passed on eventually. As the car salesman says, "Register now and your first 12 months are free!"
I wonder if history will remember that it was Apple (part of the patent group) that fought the proposal to charge a fee to the end user for every second of every stream viewed? And won.
Heck, using the criteria they used, obviously workgroup server owners are much smarter than PC and Mac owners, and a Cray owner would be the smartest of all.
That reminded me of an old story I'd heard about Steve Jobs buying a Cray to design the Macintosh. The irony was that Seymour Cray was using a Macintosh to design the Cray.
http://www.m4if.org/ (MPEG-4 Industry Forum) has a note about a 'Marketing Conference Call" scheduled for July 17. A MPEG-4 Board conference call is scheduled for the 18th.
Not to fuel speculation (yeah right) but could Steve Jobs and company finally announce that they have reached a deal with the MPEG-4 group - and Apple will officially release QuickTime 6 at MWNY? Is the MPEG-4 conference call in any way related to big news being announced that day from Apple?
I'm surprised that the lack of a deal is getting so little attention, especially since Apple has already released the (time-crippled) QT-6 beta on to the market. Are they expecting us to "downgrade" back to QT5 when the beta expires? Or have they made a royalty deal on behalf of the Pro users?
YMMV - It's idle speculation but the dates are curious and the deal needs to happen some time.
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I wonder if history will remember that it was Apple (part of the patent group) that fought the proposal to charge a fee to the end user for every second of every stream viewed? And won.
Thank-you Apple. Really.
That reminded me of an old story I'd heard about Steve Jobs buying a Cray to design the Macintosh. The irony was that Seymour Cray was using a Macintosh to design the Cray.
The story is here.
http://www.m4if.org/ (MPEG-4 Industry Forum) has a note about a 'Marketing Conference Call" scheduled for July 17. A MPEG-4 Board conference call is scheduled for the 18th. Not to fuel speculation (yeah right) but could Steve Jobs and company finally announce that they have reached a deal with the MPEG-4 group - and Apple will officially release QuickTime 6 at MWNY? Is the MPEG-4 conference call in any way related to big news being announced that day from Apple? I'm surprised that the lack of a deal is getting so little attention, especially since Apple has already released the (time-crippled) QT-6 beta on to the market. Are they expecting us to "downgrade" back to QT5 when the beta expires? Or have they made a royalty deal on behalf of the Pro users? YMMV - It's idle speculation but the dates are curious and the deal needs to happen some time.