Regarding the update: You appear to be selling yourself short here. I realize we won't know for sure until someone actually asks VIA "Do you mind if we distribute your codec to the whole world as a binary plugin for a flat fee" and they say "Hell, no!" (will they even bother to answer the question if it comes from some random nobody? Maybe Mozilla should ask, just to test the waters?) but that response seems more a confirmation of your hypothesis than not.
Discretionary caps is exactly what I'd do if I was an evil patent rent-seeking genius faced with Cisco's workaround, because you don't want to annoy the big corps who actually hit your cap in the course of their business by abolishing them completely and springing a surprise price hike on them.
So that's a yes then?
Date: 2014-01-30 11:49 am (UTC)Discretionary caps is exactly what I'd do if I was an evil patent rent-seeking genius faced with Cisco's workaround, because you don't want to annoy the big corps who actually hit your cap in the course of their business by abolishing them completely and springing a surprise price hike on them.