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Rob Glidden
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Rob Glidden's personal blog at robglidden.com covers web and politics. Since 2010, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “MPEG Issues Resolution on Type-1 (Royalty-Free) Standard”. The last post was in 2020, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked for its MPEG tag page, which covers royalty-free video codecs and MPEG patent licensing. The comments are a link and discussion of MPEG and MPEG-LA, with no judgement of the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- MPEG Issues Resolution on Type-1 (Royalty-Free) Standard2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-05-01
What Hacker News says?
BTW, there is an effect at ISO to do a royalty-free ("Option 1") MPEG: http://www.robglidden.com/tag/mpeg/
Comment linking /tag/mpeg/
on “No double standards: supporting Google's push for WebM ”Submitted MPEG Plus or Patent Pool Lite? MPEG Mulls Royalty-Free Proposals as a story · 25 points
HN discussionIt seems that Google's purchase of On2 already has effect because MPEG is seeking to develop a royalty free video codec. Given that there is a desire for using royalty free video coding technologies for some applications such as video distribution over the Internet, MPEG wishes to enquire of National Bodies about their willingness to commit to active participation (as defined by Section 6.2.1.4 of the JTC1 directive…
Comment linking /2010/04/mpeg-resolution-on-royalty-free-standardization/
on “Why Our Civilization's Video Art and Culture is Threatened by the MPEG-LA”Submitted MPEG Issues Resolution on Type-1 (Royalty-Free) Standard as a story · 3 points
HN discussionMPEG and MPEG-LA may not be formally affiliated but they're two sides of the same coin. If MPEG continue to create codecs without any attempt to limit patents (and associated royalties and control) included in them then MPEG-LA or similar will continue to exist, and be made up of basically the same corporations. Not that its a big conspiracy, just a mistake that's taken on a self-sustaining, and self-funding, life o…
Comment linking /about-2/why-a-royalty-free-mpeg-a-manifesto/
on “HEVC over Twitter”Submitted How Google’s Open Sourcing of VP8 Harms the Open Web as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted MPEG envisages royalty-free MPEG video coding standard as a story · 1 points
HN discussion