patents – Just another Linux geek

4 February, 20104 February, 2010FOSS, Tech

Trying to kill Theora – MPEG LA extends royalty free use of H.264 for Internet streaming

So the MPEG LA has extended the royalty free life of Internet streaming H.264 video from the end of 2010 to the end of 2016. The majority of patents expire […]

27 January, 201027 January, 2010Tech

Christopher Blizzard: HTML5 video and H.264 – what history tells us and why we’re standing with the web

Christopher Blizzard has a great article about H.264 and what it might mean if it becomes the de-facto standard for video on the web. Remember, this is still very early […]

9 July, 20099 July, 2009FOSS

Novell to split Mono

Miguel de lcaza has written on his blog about Microsoft’s announcement to include C# and CLI under their community promise. The promise itself aside, Miguel has announced something very interesting, […]

1 June, 20091 June, 2009FOSS

Mono: An infectious disease

I’ve been reading around the Internet for a while now about folks asking why some people don’t like Mono. I have written an article which expresses my opinion on the […]

7 May, 2009FOSS

Trimming the FAT: Linux and Patents

My first article for Linux Magazine has just gone live. The TomTom case exposed a long-simmering problem resulting from the combination of patents, proprietary software companies and open source. Andrew […]