[marcodiego]

> My Christian Catholic education made and still makes me think that everybody should have a mission that extends beyond their personal interests.

I remember this same guy complaining investments in the MPEG extortionist group would disappear because they couldn't fight against AV1.

He was part of a patent Mafia is is only lamenting he lost power.

Hypocrisy in its finest form.

[maxloh]

Any link to his comment?

[marcodiego]

> all the investments (collectively hundreds of millions USD) made by the industry for the new video codec will go up in smoke and AOM’s royalty free model will spread to other business segments as well.

https://blog.chiariglione.org/a-crisis-the-causes-and-a-solu...

He is not a coder, not a researcher, he is only part of the worst game there is in this industry: a money maker from patents and "standards" you need to pay for to use, implement or claim compatibility.

[DragonStrength]

You missed the first part of that quote:

> At long last everybody realises that the old MPEG business model is now broke

And the entire post is about how dysfunctional MPEG is and how AOM rose to deal with it. It is tragic to waste so much time and money only to produce nothing. He's criticizing the MPEG group and their infighting. He's literally criticizing MPEG's licensing model and the leadership of the companies in MPEG. He's an MPEG member saying MPEG's business model is broken yet no one has a desire to fix it, so it will be beaten by a competitor. Would you not want to see your own organization reform rather than die?

Reminder AOM is a bunch of megacorps with profit motive too, which is why he thinks this ultimately leads to stalled innovation:

> My concerns are at a different level and have to do with the way industry at large will be able to access innovation. AOM will certainly give much needed stability to the video codec market but this will come at the cost of reduced if not entirely halted technical progress. There will simply be no incentive for companies to develop new video compression technologies, at very significant cost because of the sophistication of the field, knowing that their assets will be thankfully – and nothing more – accepted and used by AOM in their video codecs.

> Companies will slash their video compression technology investments, thousands of jobs will go and millions of USD of funding to universities will be cut. A successful “access technology at no cost” model will spread to other fields.

Money is the motivator. Figuring out how to reward investment in pushing the technology forward is his concern. It sounds like he is open to suggestions.

[overfeed]

> There will simply be no incentive for companies to develop new video compression technologies, at very significant cost because of the sophistication of the field, knowing that their assets will be thankfully – and nothing more – accepted and used by AOM in their video codecs.

I don't think he fully considered the motivations of Alliance members like Google (YouTube), Meta and Netflix and the lengths they'll go to optimize operational costs of delivering content to improve their bottom line.

[marcodiego]

Fixing a business model that was always a force that slowed down development, implementation and adoption is not something that should be "fixed". MPEG dying is something to celebrate not whine about.

[DragonStrength]

Could you please point to the whining? He says MPEG is broken, but AOM will stagnate. You’re mad at the messenger.

[cnst]

His argument is blatantly invalid.

He first points out that a royalty-free format was actually better than the patent-pending alternative that he was responsible for pushing.

In the end, he concludes that the that the progress of video compression would stop if developers can't make money from patents, providing a comparison table on codec improvements that conveniently omits the aforementioned royalty-free code being better than the commercial alternatives pushed by his group.

Besides the above fallacy, the article is simply full of boasting about his own self-importance and religious connotations.