[linux-audio-user] mp3 patent / microsoft

Vince Werber ka1iic at prexar.com
Wed Feb 28 17:33:47 EST 2007


What bothers me is there has been questions in the past over the 
copyrights of the 'OGG'format also...  were those issues ever resolved?

ANd let's face it...  if MicroSOft got it bad...  there is real blood in 
the water here...  and the sharks are everywhere...

vince



On Wed, 28 Feb 2007, Thomas Vecchione wrote:

>> 
>> Personally I am encouraged by news like this.  It brings us one step
>> closer to fixing the US patent system.
>
> I am not certain I agree with you at all, unless you are trying to use it as 
> an example of how broken things get.
>
> MS paid for rights from whom they thought owned the patent, as did many 
> others.  While I personally think patents are in fact very screwed up, this 
> case seems even more screwed up as the people paid have for quite some time 
> been considered to have owned the patent and should have applied.
>
>       Seablade
>



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