The stuff in court records is not the problem. The problem is statements like "Moreover, the utilization of Linux did not make the PS3 less “secure.”" and "However, when the Other OS is in use, the API and other hardware features are blocked, including the graphics chip in the PS3, which makes it impossible to run a pirated game on the Other OS.".
H.264 is patent encumbered and the organization is constantly and clearly trying to position it to leverage for massive royalties down the road.
They are trying to position it for massive royalities by... declaring it free of royalties for web streaming forever? That's one cunning plan right there.
Its also closed sourced.
This statement is non-sensical. A format can not be "open source" or "closed source". It can be openly documented or not. h.264 is quite well and openly documented, and the best implementation of an encoder for it, x264, is 100% open source.
guarded by one of the largest tech companies on earth who clearly have an extremely important vested interest in its health and survival,
You could say the same of Android, and look at how well that is working out.
A company the size of Google, as standard practice, is absolutely going to perform patent searches and evaluate their current and future liabilities. Unless you have proof they specifically did not do what every large company does,
Again, Android.
The bottom line is, WebM is already competing with H.264 in visual quality.
Not at all. On its best settings, it competes with h.264 on its worst settings. On equal terms, WebM still loses every time.
On the other hand, WebM has superior decoding attributes and is on par with H.264 (software vs hardware). With newer hardware which now supports WebM, WebM provides a superior decoding experience which directly translates into better battery life.
You seem to be confusing WebM with Theora. Theora requires less work to decode. WebM does not, it has some features which require quite a bit of processing power during decoding. It also has much less support for dedicated hardware, which gives h.264 another edge in speed and power usage.
So please, stop with your fucking idiocy and stop spewing lies and trolling.
Before swearing at and accusing others of trolling, make sure you know what you are talking about.
So after all that work of building up a brand with the horribly awkward name "OpenOffice.org", now they're going to throw it all away and try to get an even more awkward name accepted.
He was not responding to "it's really hard to grant either side any sort of moral authority", he was responding to the guy who said "Perhaps if the Palestinians hadn't thrown their hat in with their Arab neighbors during the 6 day war...then Israel wouldn't need to have war criminals?"
on the other hand, if all it takes is a petition to remove an app then boy is that a bad precedent to set.
Why would that be all it takes? As you said, the app is already the kind Apple would remove. All the petition did was bring some extra attention to this. That does not mean the app would have stayed if not for the petition, nor does it mean that any app would have been removed just because there was a petition.
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The fact that Linux was used in the original breaking of several parts of the PS3 DRM system.
The stuff in court records is not the problem. The problem is statements like "Moreover, the utilization of Linux did not make the PS3 less “secure.”" and "However, when the Other OS is in use, the API and other hardware features are blocked, including the graphics chip in the PS3, which makes it impossible to run a pirated game on the Other OS.".
Well, that article certainly has no idea what it's talking about.
I don't think Google has ever required you to say "convert" ever since they introduced that feature. If it sees units, it'll mostly figure it out.
You haven't managed to address a single point I made, though.
All you're managing to do here is show that you are a fanatic who will refuse to even listen to anything you don't already agree with.
So basically if someone doesn't agree with them you do not listen to them.
And then you think you have the moral high ground to go around calling others "trolls".
Right.
H.264 is patent encumbered and the organization is constantly and clearly trying to position it to leverage for massive royalties down the road.
They are trying to position it for massive royalities by... declaring it free of royalties for web streaming forever? That's one cunning plan right there.
Its also closed sourced.
This statement is non-sensical. A format can not be "open source" or "closed source". It can be openly documented or not. h.264 is quite well and openly documented, and the best implementation of an encoder for it, x264, is 100% open source.
guarded by one of the largest tech companies on earth who clearly have an extremely important vested interest in its health and survival,
You could say the same of Android, and look at how well that is working out.
A company the size of Google, as standard practice, is absolutely going to perform patent searches and evaluate their current and future liabilities. Unless you have proof they specifically did not do what every large company does,
Again, Android.
The bottom line is, WebM is already competing with H.264 in visual quality.
Not at all. On its best settings, it competes with h.264 on its worst settings. On equal terms, WebM still loses every time.
On the other hand, WebM has superior decoding attributes and is on par with H.264 (software vs hardware). With newer hardware which now supports WebM, WebM provides a superior decoding experience which directly translates into better battery life.
You seem to be confusing WebM with Theora. Theora requires less work to decode. WebM does not, it has some features which require quite a bit of processing power during decoding. It also has much less support for dedicated hardware, which gives h.264 another edge in speed and power usage.
So please, stop with your fucking idiocy and stop spewing lies and trolling.
Before swearing at and accusing others of trolling, make sure you know what you are talking about.
Like the other guy hinted at, Microsoft has launched about five generations of tablets already.
Pretty much every single one flopped.
So after all that work of building up a brand with the horribly awkward name "OpenOffice.org", now they're going to throw it all away and try to get an even more awkward name accepted.
They must like a challenge.
They seem to be sentences in English, but I am not sure they mean anything at all!
Anonymous FTP is completely useless in this day and age. It has long since been replaced with HTTP.
But at the same time, it's likely to be far more established and dependable than its younger counterparts
But I thought we were talking about FTP?
Next time, read the post you are replying to to the end before wielding your keyboard in anger.
Your password is usually pretty sensitive data.
Is that just three sentences copypasted at random, with no attempt whatsoever made to explain what this article is about, or what?
He was not responding to "it's really hard to grant either side any sort of moral authority", he was responding to the guy who said "Perhaps if the Palestinians hadn't thrown their hat in with their Arab neighbors during the 6 day war...then Israel wouldn't need to have war criminals?"
Your graphics card will not be sucking down power unless you run software that actually uses it.
So which part was it that defied physics, again?
You seem to have forgot the "the" in "the China".
Of course. That is hardly relevant. The question is, how hard is it to write bad code?
Five reasons why no normal person cares about Free Software:
* "Trisquel"
* "Slaine"
* "Remmina"
* "Gwibber"
* "Deja-dup"
The GPL requires you to provide the source to people who you've distributed the compiled program to.
Who have Google distributed the compiled program too?
on the other hand, if all it takes is a petition to remove an app then boy is that a bad precedent to set.
Why would that be all it takes? As you said, the app is already the kind Apple would remove. All the petition did was bring some extra attention to this. That does not mean the app would have stayed if not for the petition, nor does it mean that any app would have been removed just because there was a petition.
In that same vein
Actually, that was nowhere near in the same vein.
Those apps can be used for completely legitimate activities,
Such as?