On 9/6/06, Raphael Jacquot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
imho, sandisk should come out with the exact same player with ogg vorbis support instead of mp3 ;D
That goes against the grain of old-school business thinking. "Free" is scary for many reasons. One of the biggest is that there's no one to blame if something goes wrong. Another is that when you license by paying money, you have some reasonable amount of assurance that your legal ducks are in a row. There's no patent holder for Vorbis, so there's no one to pay license fees to, so whoever owns the patents on it (and they assume someone does) will catch you at it later and sue you for billions. There's an interesting ethic there. You can't make money unless you've spent some. Makes sense. But along with it comes its own set of breaking of ethics. You won't use a patented technology unless you can identify the patent holder, but once you do, you may decide to intentionally violate the patent because the holder is not worth your time. Traversal is going to be subject to many of these concerns. We'll never intentionally violate a patent, but if Traversal is seriously threatened by some evil company trying to haul us into court, we'll find out quickly just how much help the community is willing to give. :) Remember, Traversal isn't a separate entity. It's just a front for certain appropriate business and legal activities of the OGP. If Traversal is taken out, it's like cutting an arm off of the OGP. _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
