O'Callahan: The Fight For Patent-Unencumbered Media Codecs Is Nearly Won

Robert O'Callahan notesan important development in the fight for media codecs without patentissues. "Apple joining the Alliance for Open Media is a really bigdeal. Now all the most powerful tech companies - Google, Microsoft, Apple,Mozilla, Facebook, Amazon, Intel, AMD, ARM, Nvidia - plus content providerslike Netflix and Hulu are on board. I guess there's still no guaranteeApple products will support AV1, but it would seem pointless for Apple tojoin AOM if they're not going to use it: apparently AOM membership obligesApple to provide a royalty-free license to any 'essential patents' it holdsfor AV1 usage."