Another author in this MPEG license discussion debacle who is clearly unread and confused over what open means, and what free means.
H.264 IS open, just as all the other MPEG "technologies" are. The complete documentation for each and one of MPEG's data formats is available to anyone, free of charge, to use and to implement in whatever way they want - it's just that the end result; the H.264 video product itself, isn't free to deal with from January 1st 2016. What MPEG decides from that date and on can so far only be guessed, and for some damned reason, everyone in the "other camp" keeps making the worst possible guesses, while always having kept their mouths shut about MPEG-1 Layer-3, and MPEG-4 ASP. I call it FUD, and hypocrisy.
H.264 IS open, just as all the other MPEG "technologies" are. The complete documentation for each and one of MPEG's data formats is available to anyone, free of charge, to use and to implement in whatever way they want - it's just that the end result; the H.264 video product itself, isn't free to deal with from January 1st 2016. What MPEG decides from that date and on can so far only be guessed, and for some damned reason, everyone in the "other camp" keeps making the worst possible guesses, while always having kept their mouths shut about MPEG-1 Layer-3, and MPEG-4 ASP. I call it FUD, and hypocrisy.