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Also, Apple used to be fully behind royalty-free standards for the web:

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-patentpolicy-comment...

Apple believes that it is essential to continued interoperability and development of the Web that fundamental W3C standards be available on a royalty-free basis. In line with the W3C's mission to "lead the Web to its full potential," Apple supports a W3C patent policy with an immutable commitment to royalty-free licensing for fundamental Web standards. Apple offers this statement in support of its position.

It's powerful and persuasive stuff, worth reading in full. They only removed this statement from their website about 6 months ago.




Have they said or done something that conflicts with this statement?


Their implementations of the HTML5 <video> and <audio> draft standards work only with royalty-encumbered codecs. (The licensing is currently royalty-free for publishers and end users, but not for device manufacturers or browser vendors.)


Have they ever proposed that those codecs be part of the standard?




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