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The Wednesday 2007-03-07 at 11:45 -0800, David Brodbeck wrote:
> Russell Jones wrote:
> > You misunderstand. If Vorbis v1.3 (say) infringes a (submarine or
> > otherwise) patent, the next version, e.g. v2.0, will be changed such
> > that it does not. You just won't be able to play v1.3 files on a v2.0
> > player.
>
> That seems like a serious disincentive to designing hardware around the
> format, though. People are going to be unhappy if they spend $300 a new
> Yoyodyne Oggmaster music player and it doesn't play their old Ogg
> files. Or if the music player they bought a year ago suddenly can't
> play new music. I'd hate to be the tech support person who had to
> explain that one.
You are right, unfortunately.
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Cheers,
Carlos E. R.
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