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Google Announces WebM Community Cross Licensing 120

theweatherelectric writes "Google's WebM project has announced the formation of the WebM Community Cross-License Initiative. Members of the WebM-CCL agree to license patents they may hold that are essential to WebM technologies to other members under royalty-free terms. This initiative would seem to address some of Microsoft's concerns about WebM. Meanwhile, the MPEG LA appears to have remained silent after the submission period of its call for patents essential to WebM ended over a month ago."
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Google Announces WebM Community Cross Licensing

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  • by E IS mC(Square) ( 721736 ) on Tuesday April 26, 2011 @09:18AM (#35940986) Journal

    Yep. Flash would not have gone anywhere without Apple. Google Maps would not have gone anywhere without Apple. Youtube would not have gone anywhere without Apple. MP3 would not have gone anywhere without Apple. Fuck, even technology companies like Google, Micosoft, Adobe, SAP, Oracle would not have gone anywhere without Apple. Fuck that, even web-oriented companies like Amazon, Netflix, Facebook would not have gone anywhere without Apple.

    For any technology to survive, it has to get Apple's blessing. Because, you know, they own 100% of the PC market and all 100% of the mobile market.

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