commander@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agoFirm quietly boosts H.264 streaming license fees from $100,000 up to staggering $4.5 million — backbone codec of the internet gets meteoric increase, AVC hikes follow disastrous H.265 licensing increawww.tomshardware.comexternal-linkmessage-square120linkfedilinkarrow-up1680arrow-down19
arrow-up1671arrow-down1external-linkFirm quietly boosts H.264 streaming license fees from $100,000 up to staggering $4.5 million — backbone codec of the internet gets meteoric increase, AVC hikes follow disastrous H.265 licensing increawww.tomshardware.comcommander@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square120linkfedilink
minus-squareCosmoNova@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up101arrow-down3·1 month agoFigures. Patents are the backbone of capitalism. Some say it invented capitalism as we know it.
minus-squareWesternInfidels@feddit.onlinelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·1 month agoPatents are a (relatively speaking) newfangled trick to turn ideas into legal “capital.” In the same way that a corporation “is” a person. The backbone of capitalism? I’m not following that.
minus-squareParlimentOfDoom@piefed.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·1 month agoPatents are a way to spread knowledge, whole still offering some [time limited] protections. Before them, trade secrets were the norm, and way too much knowledge was lost with it’s creators.
Figures. Patents are the backbone of capitalism. Some say it invented capitalism as we know it.
Patents are a (relatively speaking) newfangled trick to turn ideas into legal “capital.” In the same way that a corporation “is” a person.
The backbone of capitalism? I’m not following that.
Patents are a way to spread knowledge, whole still offering some [time limited] protections. Before them, trade secrets were the norm, and way too much knowledge was lost with it’s creators.