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marcodiego commented on Show HN: Whispering – Open-source, local-first dictation you can trust   github.com/epicenter-so/e... · Posted by u/braden-w
marcodiego · 7 days ago
> I’m basically obsessed with local-first open-source software.

We all should be.

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marcodiego commented on Leonardo Chiariglione – Co-founder of MPEG   leonardo.chiariglione.org... · Posted by u/eggspurt
DragonStrength · 18 days ago
You missed the first part of that quote:

> At long last everybody realises that the old MPEG business model is now broke

And the entire post is about how dysfunctional MPEG is and how AOM rose to deal with it. It is tragic to waste so much time and money only to produce nothing. He's criticizing the MPEG group and their infighting. He's literally criticizing MPEG's licensing model and the leadership of the companies in MPEG. He's an MPEG member saying MPEG's business model is broken yet no one has a desire to fix it, so it will be beaten by a competitor. Would you not want to see your own organization reform rather than die?

Reminder AOM is a bunch of megacorps with profit motive too, which is why he thinks this ultimately leads to stalled innovation:

> My concerns are at a different level and have to do with the way industry at large will be able to access innovation. AOM will certainly give much needed stability to the video codec market but this will come at the cost of reduced if not entirely halted technical progress. There will simply be no incentive for companies to develop new video compression technologies, at very significant cost because of the sophistication of the field, knowing that their assets will be thankfully – and nothing more – accepted and used by AOM in their video codecs.

> Companies will slash their video compression technology investments, thousands of jobs will go and millions of USD of funding to universities will be cut. A successful “access technology at no cost” model will spread to other fields.

Money is the motivator. Figuring out how to reward investment in pushing the technology forward is his concern. It sounds like he is open to suggestions.

marcodiego · 18 days ago
Fixing a business model that was always a force that slowed down development, implementation and adoption is not something that should be "fixed". MPEG dying is something to celebrate not whine about.
marcodiego commented on Leonardo Chiariglione – Co-founder of MPEG   leonardo.chiariglione.org... · Posted by u/eggspurt
maxloh · 18 days ago
Any link to his comment?
marcodiego · 18 days ago
> all the investments (collectively hundreds of millions USD) made by the industry for the new video codec will go up in smoke and AOM’s royalty free model will spread to other business segments as well.

https://blog.chiariglione.org/a-crisis-the-causes-and-a-solu...

He is not a coder, not a researcher, he is only part of the worst game there is in this industry: a money maker from patents and "standards" you need to pay for to use, implement or claim compatibility.

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Using your last breath of life to fix a bug or why I love free software: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=78514#c19

Although I really like open source ideas, the humane, social and altruistic principles of free software are very beautiful. Reading this bug report a long time ago certainly influenced me on the software I choose to use.

I love the simplicity of the C programming language although I admit it is far from the most adequate tool for most of what I do.

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