[M4IF Discuss] To those concerned about MPEG- 4 Licensing ...

[William J. Fulco]

Dan,
Just a correction.... I didn't say the competitors to MPEG-4 were nefarious!
... thus:
> I think Bill's post describes the state of affairs mightily well.  As one
> of the potentially 'nefarious' little companies struggling to promote a
> non-MPEG format,

I said that Craig's suggestion that they "powers that be that want to
protect the MPEG-2 packaged-media royalty stream" were nefarious (my
words)... was something I agreed with... thus:
[SNIP]
> > While I agree with Craig that there are very likely "nefarious"
> > forces that wish to see the MPEG-2 infrastructure continue
> > (certainly for current applications like DVD)

I'd never call your guys nefarious ;-)
++Bill
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