Lourens Veen wrote:
On Thursday 31 August 2006 19:51, Lance Hanlen wrote:
On 8/30/06, Attila Kinali <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Wed, 30 Aug 2006 09:06:37 -0600
"Lance Hanlen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I really want to emphasize that patents are not so bad unless
you're a giant corporation.
Not fully true. Patents are a big problem if you are a small
company or a free time project like 99.999% of the OSS projects
are.
I realized you're absolutely right to be suspicious of patents.
As an additional argument:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/5312696.stm
It was in the German news yesterday, but I didn't want to post something
only some people would be able to read.
The MP3 patent situation is seriously strange already. There are two
companies granting patent licenses to make MP3 playback
devices/software. So, it shouldn't be a surprise that somebody else has
developed yet another method for doing MP3 playback.
--
JRT
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