 morboComplete Your Transaction
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Re: Pbbt Google payed 125 million to buy the company and release the codec to the public. A simple "thank you" is in order. |
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iansltx
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said by morbo:Google payed 125 million to buy the company and release the codec to the public. A simple "thank you" is in order. Yep. I'm still waiting for them to thank me.
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What am I supposed to be thanking them for? |
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| said by BillRoland:What am I supposed to be thanking them for? Letting you keep your nuts. |
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 KoilPremium
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said by iansltx:Just like they bought Picasa (now free, though you pay for Picasa Web Albums if you want to store a lot on there), Keyhole (now Google Earth; premium versions are available but most folks get it for free) and other companies that I've now forgotten about... They also provide a ton of other apps for free as well.
I've just got one question: Why don't you do your job for free?
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said by BillRoland:What am I supposed to be thanking them for? I'm with you on this too.. I don't get it. |
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They provide it for free to us, but they make money from advertising and our hits, so they make money and we're happy.
It works for me.
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KrKHeavy Artillery For The Little GuyPremium
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You can use the codec royalty free now. So if you find that useful, you should thank them.
I like the idea of a high quality open source and free and more importantly --- standard --- (ie, widely adopted) video codec.
There's been quality free codecs. That hardly anybody uses! This coalition aims to fix that.
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iansltx
join:2007-02-19
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I do. It's called college field session 
Google gets plenty of money, through advertising and now various for-pay cloud services. |
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said by iansltx:Just like they bought Picasa (now free, though you pay for Picasa Web Albums if you want to store a lot on there), Keyhole (now Google Earth; premium versions are available but most folks get it for free) and other companies that I've now forgotten about... Keyhole originally had pay versions to start with.
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iansltx
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| That was my point; only limited versions of Keyhold (some bundled with nVidia gfx cards as a promo) were free. For-pay service was the norm. Google changed that, though personally I liked the Keyhold black motif rather than the light Google Earth one. |
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said by Rob:said by morbo:Google payed 125 million to buy the company and release the codec to the public. A simple "thank you" is in order. Yep. I'm still waiting for them to thank me. +1
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morboComplete Your Transaction
join:2002-01-22
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Read up on it if you are interested. The goal of this 100million gift to the world is to fix a looming problem with internet video and royalty payments. What is expected to happen in 2015 is a change that would hold producers and distribution channels hostage. |
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