[Open-graphics] Re: Patents

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Le mercredi 06 septembre 2006 à 08:47 -0400, Timothy Miller a écrit :
> On 9/6/06, Raphael Jacquot <raphael.jacquot at imag.fr> wrote:
> 
> > imho, sandisk should come out with the exact same player with ogg vorbis
> > support instead of mp3 ;D
> 
> That goes against the grain of old-school business thinking.  "Free"
> is scary for many reasons.  One of the biggest is that there's no one
> to blame if something goes wrong.  Another is that when you license by
> paying money, you have some reasonable amount of assurance that your
> legal ducks are in a row.  There's no patent holder for Vorbis, so
> there's no one to pay license fees to, so whoever owns the patents on
> it (and they assume someone does) will catch you at it later and sue
> you for billions.
> 
> There's an interesting ethic there.  You can't make money unless
> you've spent some.  Makes sense.
A point of philosophy. Considering the economy as a system then it's just about cost, spending money.
What one calls a "gain" or "making money" lies in a far wider system,
let's name it the "human affairs", which is just about social rules,
mainly the property. At this level only stands the ethic.