Open-source codecs face patent challenge?

[Basil Chupin]

*If authentic, a new email from Steve Jobs has indicated that Apple and 
Microsoft could be preparing to challenge the validity of open-source 
video codecs.*

Jobs' email to Hugo Roy <http://hugoroy.eu/jobs-os.php> of the Free 
Software Foundation Europe, coupled with a similarly worded announcement 
from Microsoft on Friday, is a shot across the bow of backers of the 
open-source Ogg Theora video codec, used by Mozilla to bring HTML5 video 
technology to Firefox. Both Apple and Microsoft plan to use the H.264 
codec in their HTML5 strategy, which is governed by a licensing body 
called MPEG LA. Apple and Microsoft, along with a host of tech 
companies, are also members of that group.


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