Thread: Nokia attacks VP8
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2013-03-28 , 07:10
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Originally Posted by michaaa62 View Post
Although i agree with most of the blame Nokia gets from us for their poor, very poor, management, I tend to disagree on that!
I like Nokia, for creating the smart phones. It may be decisions of Elop and Microsoft which lead to abandonment of mobile-Linux-based-operating-systems, but I still respect Nokia for developing these operating systems in the first place
Originally Posted by michaaa62 View Post
1. Google shall make its billions on youtube with content of their users by putting adds on the pages.
Agree. Quite distracting. Annoying. I will likely seek an alternative place to watch videos of nature: hedgehogs, mountains, rainbows...
Originally Posted by michaaa62 View Post
2. VP8 is not an open project at all. It was developed behind closed doors by one single company, that google lately bought.
True. It's not Google's achievement. It's a product which Google has recently bought, seeking to use it for, as you aptly put, 'world domination'.
Originally Posted by michaaa62 View Post
3. VP8 is not GPL licenced, it is just free of charge, and even that is not cemented, but rumored is FRAND usage.
Yes, it rubs me the wrong way, too. VP3 was released into public domain, and Mozilla later created Theora from it. Cannot something similarly open happen to VP8, too? And about rumours: Google's announcement.
Originally Posted by michaaa62 View Post
4.You ( at least, I) could make a strong case for the big "G" is trying to continuously gain world domination, by pushing its standards on internet.
Agree. I dislike them. Fortunately, I no longer use Google Maps. I use OpenStreetMap, and sometimes Bing satellite. Gmail is harder to quit, though. Fortunately, Wikinews are more interesting than Google News - especially if you visit Wikinews in several different languages. And Google Books don't have much potential, not with their uncomfortable interface and annoying "Preview! Limited number of pages available." messages. Gutenberg, and some other places, are better.
Originally Posted by michaaa62 View Post
5. Their history in dropping projects despite a wide user base is as poor as Nokia's. Just look at the latest reader development.
I have heard of this, but I don't even know exactly what Google Reader was.
Originally Posted by michaaa62 View Post
Nokia vs. Google: There is no 'good' vs. 'bad' in it, just probably much money!
Probably. But I still cheer for Nokia.
Originally Posted by michaaa62 View Post
If you are really into it you should read the fosspatents article http://www.fosspatents.com/2013/03/n...p8-patent.html of Florian Mueller, who is kind of 'blamed' in this OSNews article as 'a consultant paid by Oracle and Microsoft', but he is the one to educate them about GPL and stuff.
Interesting. Going to read now. Thank you.
Best wishes.