> > The situation is somewhat different for Novell. It's a company, and > > it's located in the US, where it only takes some idiot to put his cat > > into a microwave oven to sue the business that sells it. > > Novell just doesn't want to take the risk of getting sued. > > And here in Europe we do not have Software Patents, that makes it much > easier for us. A free implementation of a videocodec which is patented > in US, is no problem in Germany, so it's legal here. SUSE want's to > sell the boxes all over the world, so they have to take care of all > laws arround the countries they sell the boxes.
Please just use and advocate OGG Vorbis/ OGG Theora. Ciao, Marcus --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
