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Seven big-name Internet companies today announced formation of the Alliance for Open Media – an open-source project that will develop next-generation media formats, codecs and technologies in the public interest. The Alliance's founding members are Amazon, Cisco, Google, Intel Corporation, Microsoft, Mozilla and Netflix.
Reportedly, the group plans to publish its code under the Apache 2.0 license and it will operate under W3C patent rules, meaning the members will waive royalties from the codec implementations and their patents on the codec itself.
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Amazon, Netflix, Google, Microsoft, Mozilla, et al Partner To Create Next-Gen Video Codec
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(Score: 3, Informative) by takyon on Wednesday September 02 2015, @01:28AM
Implied DRM? DRM already exists [w3.org] and it doesn't need to be part of a codec. I seriously doubt that both Mozilla and Google would sign on to an "open codec" plan that required DRM.
Let's wait and hear what Xiph [xiph.org] has to say about this before we start crying wolf. They may even join the Alliance for Open Media.
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(Score: 5, Interesting) by jmorris on Wednesday September 02 2015, @02:07AM
Actually it was Xiph's absence that set off the alarms because there is no way in Hell they would work in a group planning anything foul. They (ok, mostly Monty and the mouse in his pocket) are experts at codec development and implementation and should be there, having actually succeeded at developing a patent free codec and actually getting it deployed in the real world. MozCorp is enemy territory as far as I'm concerned. When they aren't stopping all work to play butthurt SJW games because somebody did somebody unrelated to their work they are supporting DRM, bundling in commercial spyware into their supposedly "Free" browser, building an App Store, promoting their own OS with locks and threatening trademark lawsuits if somebody wants the evil bits gone. The Mozilla and Firefox brands are pretty much tainted at this point to where only a fork can cleanse the code and restore trust. The others named are pretty much the "rogues gallery" of the enemies of the Free Internet.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 02 2015, @05:32AM
> MozCorp is enemy territory as far as I'm concerned.
Daala is a collaboration between Mozilla and Xiph.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 02 2015, @09:30PM
> Actually it was Xiph's absence that set off the alarms because there is no way in Hell they would work in a group planning anything foul.
Monty is happy with it. [livejournal.com]