I think this movement will apply on newly-legalizing patents only, it will be too much counterforce against it. Patents is vital for software giants, it's just a basis of their market activity and relevancy. As of recent MP3 issue, open-source community can definitely apply just a little bit more willingness and forget about deprecated formats in favour of new ones. If there's a feeling among people like "MP3 is a safe bay and Ogg-Vorbis/LAME/etc is uncertainty", it can be overcome easily.
2008/11/25 David Reyes Samblas Martinez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Dear all, > Is a little bit offtopic but due recent mp2/mp3 fight against pirat... > sorry Sysvel, maybe is interesting to spread this little bit of hope > to the Openmoko community > Trough a local FOSS-friendly news site[1] I read there is a 180 > degrees in Software pattent policy in US pattent office , it can > invalidate almost ALL Software patents aviable. Yes, seems a Fools day > joke but Slashdot also has articles about this here[2] and here[3]. > > I'm very excited, but is too late night for a in depth read of legal > "mambo jambo" , may be someone with more legal skills can assure that > is so awesome as it seems > > [1]http://www.barrapunto.org > [2]http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/08/07/24/1458215.shtml > [3]http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/11/24/1713259 _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community