Re: mp3 patent fines and ogg

[David Kastrup]

"Alfred M. Szmidt" <ams@gnu.org> writes:

>    Microsoft just got fined 1.5e9 dollars (yes, 1.5 billion with a
>    "b") for patent violations with respect to playing mp3's under
>    ms-windows.
>
> s/playing/conversion/
>
> Playing a MP3 does not infringe on the patent.
>
>    My question is, how will this effect free/open formats like
>    ogg-vorbis?
>
> Only possible effect it can have is a positive, people will wake up
> to the fact that software patents are completely absurd.

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