[Open-graphics] Re: Patents

[James Richard Tyrer]

Lourens Veen wrote:
> On Thursday 31 August 2006 19:51, Lance Hanlen wrote:
>> On 8/30/06, Attila Kinali <attila at kinali.ch> wrote:
>>> On Wed, 30 Aug 2006 09:06:37 -0600
>>>
>>> "Lance Hanlen" <lance.hanlen at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> I really want to emphasize that patents are not so bad unless
>>>> you're a giant corporation.
>>> Not fully true. Patents are a big problem if you are a small
>>> company or a free time project like 99.999% of the OSS projects
>>> are.
>> I realized you're absolutely right to be suspicious of patents.
> 
> As an additional argument: 
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/5312696.stm
> 
> It was in the German news yesterday, but I didn't want to post something 
> only some people would be able to read.

The MP3 patent situation is seriously strange already.  There are two 
companies granting patent licenses to make MP3 playback 
devices/software.  So, it shouldn't be a surprise that somebody else has 
developed yet another method for doing MP3 playback.

-- 
JRT