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This is all very cool, but what annoys me the most is that, let’s say you create video authoring software, it creates a piece of unique content and you decide to use a codec that’s licensed; you’ve got to pay royalties. If you use another it’s not supported by default. .FLAC for example or .oggv

To not be liable to lawsuits and to support your own you need to come up with your own codec, resulting in your own platform and the circle starts once again.

Why in this age can we just not all work together and make something that’s usable by everything for everyone without any restrictions.




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