be against patents like the european will be, i hope. otherwise, you'll never be free again.
you think europe is against patents? until now there is no tendency in that direction to be seen. we rather slowly implement a us-compatible patent law. the first steps are already taken ...
for video formats, we'll be only using theora soon ( and theora streemed on icecasr), so, yeh we could avoid some patents problems.
well. i'm quite sure that an industry standard like mpeg4 (and any other legally used codec) is far more secure than an open source project as theora can be. why? because e.g. apple (the de-facto authors of big parts of the mpeg4 standard) can afford lawyers to check the situation, while we can't. and they do deals to protect their assets while we can't.
does anyone know any patents pd infringes?
looks like a horrific future coming ...
lg martin
sevy
slimboyfatboyslim wrote:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/11/18/ballmer_linux_lawsuits/
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