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		<title>Problem or Opportunity? Steve Jobs on Standardizing Royalty Free Codecs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As readers of this blog know, I am a long-time proponent of royalty-free standardization as the best option for open Web media, preferable to informal, vendor-run open-sourcing of undocumented or unreviewed Intellectual Property Rights.
MPEG, an ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.robglidden.com/2010/06/problem-or-opportunity-steve-jobs-on-standardizing-royalty-free-codecs/</link>
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		<title>Google Blinks, Supports Standardizing WebM</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last night Google appears to have ended its silence about its willingness to standardize VP8 and WebM.
Cnet has updated a news article, &#8220;Mozilla trying to build VP8 into HTML5 video&#8220;, with Google&#8217;s response:
&#8220;We&#8217;re excited by ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.robglidden.com/2010/05/google-blinks-supports-standardizing-webm/</link>
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		<title>Google&#8217;s VP8 Patent Problem (It&#8217;s Even Bigger Than You Think)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week I encouraged Google to rethink their VP8 open sourcing patent strategy and
&#8220;do the right open standards thing — join and contribute to responsible standards groups that are working to solve the royalty-free open ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.robglidden.com/2010/05/googles-vp8-patent-problem-bigger-than-you-think/</link>
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		<title>How Google&#8217;s Open Sourcing of VP8 Harms the Open Web</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Much of the initial commentary on Google&#8217;s open sourcing of the VP8 codec it acquired in purchasing On2 has breathlessly, and uncritically, centered on the purported game-changing impact of the move.
But unfortunately, these commentaries miss ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.robglidden.com/2010/05/how-googles-open-sourcing-of-vp8-harms-the-open-web/</link>
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		<title>MPEG Issues Resolution on Type-1 (Royalty-Free) Standardization</title>
		<description><![CDATA[MPEG &#8212; Working Group 11 of  ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29 &#8212; has issued a resolution seeking active participation in developing a Type-1 (royalty-free) video coding standard.
&#8220;Given that there is a desire for using royalty free ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.robglidden.com/2010/04/mpeg-resolution-on-royalty-free-standardization/</link>
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		<title>Four Ways to Tell if the FCC&#8217;s Open Set Top Interface is On Track</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It is gratifying to see the FCC Broadband Plan include an open set top recommendation (4.12), firmly  grounded in the FCC&#8217;s continuing responsibility to implement section 629 of the 1996 Telco  Act to ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.robglidden.com/2010/03/four-ways-to-tell-fcc-open-set-top-on-track/</link>
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		<title>Gateway To Nowhere: Standards-Bashing Won&#8217;t Fix Set Top Gridlock</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Standards &#8220;would thwart, not advance, innovation&#8221; and &#8220;entail crippling delays&#8221;  because they are &#8220;extremely time consuming, often divisive, and sometimes used by one faction to block the progress of another or to promote its own ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.robglidden.com/2010/02/gateway-to-nowhere-standards-bashing-wont-fix-set-top-gridlock/</link>
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		<title>DTG Group Challenges Semi-Open Stance of Project Canvas</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last August I questioned if the BBC-led hybrid DTV Project Canvas was &#8220;seduced by the cynical allure of a semi-open &#8217;standards-based open environment&#8216;&#8221; .
Many kudos to the DTG &#8212; the lead UK DTV standards group ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.robglidden.com/2010/02/dtg-challenges-project-canvas-semi-open-stance/</link>
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		<title>FCC Video Device Innovation Notice:  We Need an Open Video Internet!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The FCC Video Device Innovation Notice [1] asks one of the most fundamentally central questions to the prospect of not only a viable Broadband Plan for America, but also to the very future of the ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.robglidden.com/2009/12/fcc-video-device-innovation-open-video-internet/</link>
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		<title>Royalty free codec standards &#8212; don&#8217;t settle for less</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After a lively debate, the IETF appears to be moving forward with a royalty-free audio codec standardization activity.  Here&#8217;s to its successful launch and positive outcome.
I&#8217;ve put a brief summary at the mpegrf.com site, and ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.robglidden.com/2009/12/royalty-free-codec-standards-dont-settle-for-less/</link>
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