[linux-audio-user] mp3 patent / microsoft

[david]

It ain't over until the fat lady sings. IOW, I thoroughly expect that 
award to be seriously whittled down - plus thoroughly appealed and so on 
- before MS actually has to pay anything.

Vince Werber wrote:
> 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...
> 
> 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.

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David
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