Chiariglione: A crisis, the causes and a solution

Worth a read: this blogposting from Leonardo Chiariglione, the founder and chair of MPEG, onhow (in his view) the group is being destroyed by free codecs and patent trolls."Good stories have an end, so the MPEG business model could not lastforever. Over the years proprietary and 'royalty free' products haveemerged but have not been able to dent the success of MPEG standards. Moreimportantly IP holders - often companies not interested in exploiting MPEGstandards, so called Non Practicing Entities (NPE) - have become more andmore aggressive in extracting value from their IP." (Thanks to Paul Wise).