Fair Media Layer

Taken from the Doom9 forum 
(http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&postid=170923#post170923) :

"Anyway,

The whole MPEG4 thing bothers me a lot. All the efforts in the 
commercial codec world are a total waste of energy and in the end will 
make people pay for thin air! And if that's not enough in their way to 
dominance they spy on you and even try to make you pay for stuff that 
could easily be free to all. This is exactly what's wrong in the whole 
world of ever larger companies. You can see it everywhere, companies 
trying to build another layer into some big stream of money and 
protecting it by stupid patents. There are no gunshots but this 
absolutely is pure mafia practice and the worst thing is that no value 
is added to anything.

Why can't there be a non-profit company going for total media format 
dominance? And wouldn't such a company and it's products gain enormous 
popularity if they would posisiton themselves as the only fair media 
solution around? I mean, loads of webmasters will do free banners for 
such a company and the whole world will soon know that it's the only way 
to go. And all you need for this is a team like the people currently 
working on XviD, some marketing guru's, a lawyer or two and a strong 
community like XviD allready has. "

I'm not sure wether MCF needs a company, but otherwise that's exactly 
what we're doing (on the container+architecture side).





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