MPEG model is broken
 

Founder calls for rubber band to hold it together

The bloke who founded MPEG said that its business model is borked.

Writing in his bog, Leonardo Chiariglione, the founder and chairman of MPEG, said that MPEG's 'business model' is to produce standards having the best performance as a goal, irrespective of the IPR involved. By making MPEG standards the best in the market and have an international standard status, manufacturers/service providers get a global market of digital media products, services and applications, and end users can seamless communicate with billions of people and access millions of services.

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