Collaboration doesn't mean they work for free. It means many pool resources to solve the same problem, instead of everyone trying to reinvent the wheel and then charging everyone else for it. That's what AOM are doing, which disproves your claims in practice.
> Which is why entities like MPEG-LA exist in the first place.
Nope, they exist because of the messed up legal patent situation, which allows such parasitic entities to engage in patent protection racket which is the opposite of progress. Patent law needs serious reform to prevent such kind of abuse.
Collaboration doesn't mean they work for free. It means many pool resources to solve the same problem, instead of everyone trying to reinvent the wheel and then charging everyone else for it. That's what AOM are doing, which disproves your claims in practice.
> Which is why entities like MPEG-LA exist in the first place.
Nope, they exist because of the messed up legal patent situation, which allows such parasitic entities to engage in patent protection racket which is the opposite of progress. Patent law needs serious reform to prevent such kind of abuse.