Forgot your password?  Comment: Re:Open source still requires
license fees (Score 1) 95  by Florian Weimer (#45282653)
Attached to: Cisco Releases Open Source "Binary Module" For
H.264 In WebRTC  That's actually missing a key piece of
information. Patent licenses can be very narrow in scope, which
allows an owner to charge different parties for different
aspects how a device uses a patented technology.  Does anybody
know why I wouldn't need a separate licensing deal with MPEG LA
if I built a web application using WebRTC? Their typical
licensing agreement (as used in Windows and Flash, for instance)
does not extend to third-party applications that use the codecs
through APIs.  Comment: What's wrong with Lua? (Score 1) 254  by
Florian Weimer (#44952947) Attached to: The Most WTF-y
Programming Languages  Is there any indication why Lua scores so
highly here? It seems a rather benign little language to me.
Certainly, nil-terminated arrays are can be tricky, and a
missing local keyword can ruin your day, but that