On Tue, 2008-03-25 at 02:36 -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote: > On Mar 24, 2008, Bill Nottingham <notting@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > >> Honest question: has anyone who actually ran or distributed mp3 > >> decoders implemented in (otherwise-)Free Software ever been stopped > >> from doing so in countries where the patent encumbrances of mp3 apply? > >> Or have most just been scared of even trying? > > > Does it really matter? There have been shutdowns due to patent licensing > > on MP3 in the past month - why poke the bear with something obvious. > > Software-only or hardware? Encoders or decoders? > > MP3 patent holders used to distinguish between these cases. FWIW, they were hardware, at CeBIT: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/03/07/patent_crackdown_at_cebit/ -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug
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