--- Jim Jewett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Joseph Daniel Zukiger wrote:
>
> > What guarantees do Apple, Nokia, et. al. offer
> that
> > their corporate-blessed containers/formats/codecs
> are
> > free from threat for (ergo) the rest of us?
>
> In the end, it doesn't matter what the law or the
I don't know if that entirely true..
In Lucent Technologies, Inc. v. Gateway, Inc. for example:
"Lucent had not made any representations that its patents would be
licensed through MPEG LA; to the contrary, Defendants such as Gateway
were informed that they would need a license directly from Lu
If by "Corporate Blessed", you mean codecs like H.264, there's a very simple
answer to that. Nokia and Apple pay licensing fees to a company called MPEG
LA. MPEG LA indemnifies Nokia and Apple from patent lawsuits over the use of
MPEG-related codecs. Should anyone come forward with a new patent, th
I apologize in advance if this question has already
been broached. In what I have seen of several of the
ogg threads, I seem to see the question being danced
around, but not directly addressed.
Part one of the question:
What guarantees do Apple, Nokia, et. al. offer that
their corporate-blessed c
