Re: Video editing in Linux?

From: Tony Morgan (tonymorgan_at_xtreme.pipex.net)
Date: 10/28/04 

Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 08:37:04 +0100

In message <pan.2004.10.28.07.00.04.107063@tobyinkster.co.uk>, Toby
Inkster <usenet200410@tobyinkster.co.uk> writes
>Tony Morgan wrote:
>
>> It must be his (TBL's) biggest regret that he never took any patents
>> out on it.
>
>On the contrary, he stated right from the start that it was a concious
>decision not to patent any of the key technologies. Otherwise it would not
>have caught on the way it did.

True, but there are many examples of technologies where intellectual
rights were secured but offered free. The one that immediately comes to
mind is Java/Javascript - which is why Microsoft has been forced by Sun
to toe the line on standardisation.
>
>Plenty of other web-like information architectures have been designed
>before and since the web, but none of them have caught on, primarily
>because they were so proprietry. The open architecture of the web, made
>everybody an equal stake-holder, ensuring it wide support.
>
True, but looking outside the general infrastructure there are
exceptions. It's hard to do any browsing today without encountering a
Flashed website. Other common technologies encountered where
intellectual property rights do exist include PDFs and LZW (fortunately
the latter was allowed to expire last year). 

-- 
Tony Morgan
http://www.camcord.info

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