alt Hacker News> "if I spent the time, risk, effort, and money to develop the pre-eminent protocol and hardware used by most TV's in the world... would I want to give that work away for free?"
This is absolutely fine. But it should preclude them from becoming a public standard.
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andybak • last Wednesday at 11:25 PM
Devil's Advocate time. Would the result of that be better or worse quality public standards?
(I don't actually know what I think off the cuff - but it's the obvious follow on question to your statement and I don't think your statement can stand on it's own without a well argued counter)
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> This is absolutely fine. But it should preclude them from becoming a public standard.
Define "public standard". And how is HDMI one of them?
HDMI is a private bundle of IP that the license holders are free to give (or not give) to anyone. We're not talking about a statue by a government 'of the people' what should be public. No one is mandated by any government to implement it AFAICT: and even if it was, it would be up to the government to make sure they only reference publicly available documents in laws.