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Re: [rtcweb] Cisco to open source its H.264 implementation and absorb MPEG-LA licensing fees

Daniel-Constantin Mierla <miconda@gmail.com> Thu, 12 December 2013 23:39 UTC

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Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2013 00:39:03 +0100
From: Daniel-Constantin Mierla <miconda@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [rtcweb] Cisco to open source its H.264 implementation and absorb MPEG-LA licensing fees
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On 13/12/13 00:01, Adam Roach wrote:
> On 12/12/13 16:25, Daniel-Constantin Mierla wrote:
>> if one doesn't trust Mozilla, it shouldn't use bare Firefox binary in 
>> the first place
>
> And if one doesn't trust Cisco, one shouldn't use the Internet.
>
> As I've pointed out before, if Cisco is targeting you, you're pretty 
> much hosed.

Are these intended to be some subtle jokes? Or maybe you can give more 
specific details. If you refer to core infrastructure, I dealt with many 
ISPs that had no Cisco footprint around. Internet might be beyond of 
only what some people saw or they believe it is.

Daniel

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