On 21 May 2012 09:51:00 +0200 openm...@pulster.de (Christoph Pulster) wrote:
> Hi Harald, > > thanks for your advices, which are intelligent ones, really. > You are right, bitterness is what I feel. Why ? > Openmoko forget to buy MP3-patent rights. The german customs seized > my 500pcs-pallett order from China. I had to sign contract with > patent holders, which is valid since 2017. So 5 years more I am a > f...... slave [...] Thanks for that tidbit, you should probably right about it, officially, as one more argument against software patents. The way I see it, software patents on MP3s really *actually* hurt the inovative (mostly in that it is the most open phone around) OpenMoko project and its few distributors. This should not be hushed. Rui _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
