[sturmen]

The referenced blog post by the founder/chairman of MPEG is worth reading.[1] In it, Chiariglione expresses regret not for the money and control his organization is losing, but for the loss of competition which he claims will slow innovation. It will be interesting to see if this comes to pass, but my hope is that the collaboration of these companies will outpace the historically siloed research consisting of a dozen companies duplicating work.

[1] http://blog.chiariglione.org/a-crisis-the-causes-and-a-solut...

[Sir_Cmpwn]

The last thing I want to hear is one of computing history's most harmful patent holders complaining about a lack of competition.