On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 01:48:44AM -0400, Richard Houser wrote: > Ahh, yes, I recall something about this. I think it far more likely > that the general concensus is that Fraunhofer doesn't have any ground to > stand on, and that they know it. There are too many commercial mp3 > ventures that use ISO or formerly Xing codecs for us to have not heard > of a lawsuit over the issue. Kinda the same deal with trying to claim a > pattent on JPEGs this month (and practically all other forms of MPEG > like frame compression) .....
Possible. But there's an awful lot of commercial organizations that are paying Fraunhofer. Including people that have a lot bigger war chests that Fraunhofer. IIRC Microsoft licenses the technology, but it may just be a patent swap... -- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ben.reser.org If your love has no hope of being welcomed do not voice it; for if it be silent it can endure, a guarded flame, within you. - The Wisdom of the Sands
