Just for interest sake. We have made extensive use of JMF together with the FOBS bridge to ffmpeg. This has given us efficient access to a wide range of media formats and performance is excellent. We did write our own OpenGL renderer for JMF which enabled significantly to further improve the performance by a large margin. The end result is that we are in a position to do real time frame-for frame manipulations of medium to high resolution video streams.
The implicit message conveyed is that Microsoft has patented all these standards, giving the impression that all these public web standards are thanks to the innovation of Microsoft. They have contributed to ssome of these (most notably the SOAP specification), but web services are not just due to Microsoft. Furthermore, having contributed to SOAP as a public standard in a W3C process should certainly have prevented them from being able to patent it (or am I wrong?). SOAP is, however, included in the list of 35 software patents which are not enforces??? I would think that the W3C would have a policy that if a company contributes to a public standard and then patents it, that that company would be prevented from participating in any other community processes. Does anyone have the actual list of patents?
Has the world not made significant strides towards mysticism, away from science with growth of all sorts of religious movements? Is the world wide erosion of human rights (and sanity) partially due to this growth in mysticism - afterall, it usually is? This article may indicate that the world is ready for accelerating this growth. Are we heading for a modern dark ages? IS the old feudalism replaced with a modern company controlled version?
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Just for interest sake. We have made extensive use of JMF together with the FOBS bridge to ffmpeg. This has given us efficient access to a wide range of media formats and performance is excellent. We did write our own OpenGL renderer for JMF which enabled significantly to further improve the performance by a large margin. The end result is that we are in a position to do real time frame-for frame manipulations of medium to high resolution video streams.
The implicit message conveyed is that Microsoft has patented all these standards, giving the impression that all these public web standards are thanks to the innovation of Microsoft. They have contributed to ssome of these (most notably the SOAP specification), but web services are not just due to Microsoft. Furthermore, having contributed to SOAP as a public standard in a W3C process should certainly have prevented them from being able to patent it (or am I wrong?). SOAP is, however, included in the list of 35 software patents which are not enforces??? I would think that the W3C would have a policy that if a company contributes to a public standard and then patents it, that that company would be prevented from participating in any other community processes. Does anyone have the actual list of patents?
Has the world not made significant strides towards mysticism, away from science with growth of all sorts of religious movements? Is the world wide erosion of human rights (and sanity) partially due to this growth in mysticism - afterall, it usually is? This article may indicate that the world is ready for accelerating this growth. Are we heading for a modern dark ages? IS the old feudalism replaced with a modern company controlled version?