Microsoft calls on Google to refrain from killing video on the web.
Microsoft has announced the filing of a complaint with the European Commission over Motorola Mobility's royalty demands, relating to H.264 video. It said that Motorola Mobility is trying to block the sale of Windows PCs and laptops, as well as the firm's Xbox 360 console because they, "enable people to view videos on ... [ read the full article ]
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It's for this very reason why I've ranted in the past that people should be bludgeoned to death for playing pissy games of "you didn't tell me I couldn't". It get's so mired in double back speak that nobody can follow it. Not even the rectal rangers that wrote it! I swear it gets to the point even Psy Ops operatives want to shoot themselves, it gets so complicated.
It's situations like this that socialism (awful as it gets) makes sense at times. Use capitalism in the beginning, but then once your device or product has run it's course, it then becomes public domain. Thus rendering the patent debacle mute. That way the 1st say 25-30 years you can completely sue the shit out of anyone that even remotely makes something like your product & there's no court. It's not like you're fooling anybody.
It's a thought & like everything else, it sure as hell won't work in practice. Somebody has always got to screw with the system.
it's nothing more than payback for microsoft extorting a $10 royalty from the android phone manufacturers. i don't feel bad for them at all. what did they think other companies would do?
Maybe a little payback for being outbid on the Nortel patents by the "consortium" of Microsoft, Apple, RIM, Sony and others?
When corporations that big get together to outbid another, maybe consortium isn't the right word.
This is public relations fluff that your going to hear from the "consortium" more and more. Consortium good, anyone else trying to be a player in the market especially Google, bad. Dave Heiner does a pretty good job of painting Microsoft as a victim though; the mark of a truly corrupt attorney.
Originally posted by Jackal1234: it's nothing more than payback for microsoft extorting a $10 royalty from the android phone manufacturers. i don't feel bad for them at all. what did they think other companies would do?
Agreed. Microsoft is getting a taste of its own medicine.
