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Claude Seyrat wrote: > Be sure, that there are many > patents > that can be applied on W3C standards, ASN-1 and others. MPEG is not worst > or better wrt to patents and it is clear wrt to royalties: With the W3C, you can assume that the people who wrote the standard didn't build in a requirement to use their own proprietary IP, and made an effort to produce work that is as unencumbered as possible. As Len points out, this is not a guaranteed promise that you won't get into trouble, but it is substantially better than nothing. Thus your assertion that they're all the same is wrong. -- Cheers, Tim Bray (ongoing fragmented essay: http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/)
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