Do you remember how Microsoft snuck a Trojan into their IPR statement for the integer transform? Something along the lines of, "We agree to the standard royalty-free terms, as long as everyone else does".. It didn't take long for everyone to adopt the "Microsoft amendment" to their IPR statements, and for one token member to object to royalty-free terms, and the whole thing came tumbling down.
sounds familiar. I was involved around '03, when Polycom and about 25 companies were up against the 4 or 5 biggies over the patent issue. It was like watching a bunch of school kids get beat up by teenage bullies. Very ugly.
MPEG-LA are really just a bunch of thugs. They remind me of Tony Soprano: "Satisfaction guaranteed -- or double your garbage back!"
