Jobs may be threatening Ogg Theora

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Mon, May 03, 2010 at 09:48:04AM -0400, Fabio FZero wrote:
> It's a bluff, obviously.
> 
> But most of the press is not versed in patent laws, so the FUD is
> already there. Microsoft made this sort of thing into an art, and now
> Apple (or whoever wrote this) is simply following suit.

Well after all H.264 is what apple has hardware decoding support for,
so that's what they want people to use.  Their hardware can't decode
theora so they would loose huge amounts of battery life if they had to
support that.  Better to make sure people don't start getting any ideas.

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Len Sorensen
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