http://www.macnn.com/articles/02/06/05/jobs.on/
Jobs on MPEG-4 licensing, MPEG-4, QT6, eMac
updated 09:15 am EDT, Wed June 5, 2002
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c|net's interview with Steve Jobs discusses the absence of a final licensing agreement with a patent group that holds the rights to MPEG-4, a next-generation compression format for video and audio and the technology used in QuickTime 6, which was released yesterday: "The licensing stuff is getting worked out. It isn't totally worked out yet. Every 'i' is not dotted and every 't' is not crossed, but it's getting there. I have a lot of confidence it will. This is too important not to get worked out. We'll be shipping QuickTime 6 as part of Jaguar, our next major release of Mac OS X, which ships later this summer. I expect stuff will be worked out by then."
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hostage?
i sure hope the fact that apple is PR-committed to MP4 doesn't mean the licensing people leverage that against them. any info / ideas on how it will shake down?
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