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Look it’s all actually about re-encumberancing image file formats back into corporate controlled patented formats. If we would collectively just spend time and money and development resources expanding and improving PNG and gif formats that are no longer patent encumbered, we’d all live happily ever after.

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gianni@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
JPEG-XL is in no way patent encumbered. Neither is AVIF. I don’t know what you’re talking about

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- dezmd@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  encode.su/…/3863-RANS-Microsoft-wins-data-encodin…
  
  www.theregister.com/2022/…/microsoft_ans_patent/
  
  avifstudio.com/blogs/faq/avif-patents/
  
  news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26910515
  
  aomedia.org/…/the-alliance-for-open-media-stateme…
  
  If AVIF was not patent encumbered, AOMedia would not need to have a Patent License to allow open source use.
  
  A majority of the most recent standards are effectively cabal esque private groups of Corporations that hold patents that on the underlying technology and then license the patents among each other as part of the standards org and throw a license bone towards open source. That can all be undone by the patent holders at their whim.
  
  There’s no need to create a standard format that’s patent encumbered especially if they don’t ever intend to monetize that paten,t. It’s all about maintaining control of intellectual property and especially who was allowed and when they are allowed to profit from the standards.
  
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  - gianni@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Royalty-free blanket patent licensing is compatible with Free Software and should be considered the same as being unpatented. Even if it’s conditioned on a grant of reciprocality. It’s only when patent holders start demanding money (or worse, withholding licenses altogether) that it becomes a problem
    
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AdrianTheFrog@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
its royalty free and has an open source implementation, what more could you want?

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- dezmd@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  No patent encumbrance. That was the entire point.
  
  Clawing control of patent infected media standards is far more important for a healthy open internet built on open standards that is not subject to the whims and controls of capital investment groups eating up companies to exert control of the entire technology standards pipeline.
  
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