Re: matroska container sold to IBM

You are aware that this "news" was originally posted on April 1st, yes?

gruel


On Tue, 13 May 2003, wnf wrote:
> Hello,Christian HJ Wiesner£¡
> 
> 	Great!
>     Congratulation!
> 
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> >Hi all,
> >
> >i have some great news to spread today, and i am indeed extremely happy 
> >that i have the honour of doing so :
> >
> >The matroska project, including all source code and the main 
> >specification, by signed contract dated 31st March 2003, was sold to the 
> >International Bussiness Machine Corporation ( IBM ), New Orchard Road, 
> >Armonk, NY 10504, USA. . My thanks goes to Dan 'Metaboy' Marlin from the 
> >Corecodec team for making the initial contact, Dan, without you this 
> >would have not been possible.
> >
> >IBM will convert the matroska project and all libraries into a closed 
> >source format, but make the binaries of the library publically available 
> >for non-commercial usage, together with an API to be able to read/write 
> >matroska files from all applications on different OSes. An  arrangement 
> >was made with all active developers to make it possible to allow a 
> >changing of the existing GPL/QPL dual licensing system.
> >
> >After months of hard negotiations there can be no doubt that one of the 
> >first commercial license takers of matroska will be the Matsushita 
> >Corporation, Tokyo, Japan, chosing matroska as their main container 
> >format for an upcoming proprietary blue laser DVD standard to be 
> >released by Panasonic and some of their licensees on the new standard, 
> >in an attempt to avoid the domination of the Windows Media Video 9 (TM) 
> >standard from Micorosoft (R)  for next generations HDTV video. Panasonic 
> >already announced they will use a wavelet based video codec called WARP, 
> >created by the IBM video compression department around the well known 
> >codec expert Mr. Toby Hudon ( performing wavelet on 512 consecutive 
> >frames, and on every frame itself ), and to use the musepack audio 
> >compression format ( MPC ) for audio.
> >
> >I sincerely hope that all of you will see the big advantage for the 
> >opensource audio and video community in undertaking this step, as from 
> >now on there will be one new standard a/v container, in possession of 
> >one of the biggest computer companies of the world, but fully available 
> >for the community.
> >
> >Best regards from Hawaii
> >
> >Christian
> >http://www.matroska.org
> >
> >
> >
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