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by itistoday 5856 days ago
Question: How do you go about getting "written permission from Apple"? What's the standard way of doing this (is there one)?
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Talk to your ADC rep. She can probably escalate it if necessary.
Written permission probably means / is part of submitting it to the app store and getting it approved. No overhead.
Email sjobs@mac.com.
That one didn't work for me, but I got an answer on sjobs@apple.com, for what it's worth.
What'd he say?
Well it was about the announcement of WebM, his reply was basically the one he'd given about Theora (http://hugoroy.eu/jobs-os.php) but shorter and less involved: that WebM is likely subject to existing patents, just like h.264, and that the talk about free-as-in-beer (on top of free-as-in-freedom) is likely a wish. I asked a followup question (on whether Apple would consider the idea, and if Apple's existing patent protection re h.264 wouldn't cover most of the threat landscape in WebOS) but didn't get any further reply.

YMMV

I must have missed this, when did Apple demote him to support rep? Was it because of the network issues?