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semessier | 2 months ago

> No standard has ever been developed using money obtained by selling copies of the standard.

unfortunately there are examples in the Telecom world

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JAlexoid|2 months ago

Most of the development costs are recouped through licenses on the base-stations and somewhat on the very low patent licenses per chip/device, not the price of access to the standard.

Back to the the HDMI standard, the licensing fee has already been paid by the hardware manufacturer. Restricting software is unnecessary, as the patent license fees have already been collected on the device.

throwaway2037|2 months ago

Oh, interesting. Can you share some examples?