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

[Daniel B. Miller]

I was branding ourselves as nefarious in the minds of some, not you
specifically -- sorry to be unclear.
 ___  Dan Miller
(++,) CTO and founder, On2 Technologies
On Sun, 5 May 2002, William J. Fulco wrote:
> 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
>
> William J. Fulco
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