Re: Fedora Desktop future- RedHat moves

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Antonio Olivares

Who is the patent holder in this case?
I have two links on one of my pages

http://www20.brinkster.com/olivares/

http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/
http://www.freepatentsonline.com/

I understand up to a certain point.  But apparently
there are too many patent owners and it will be hard
to keep up who has the upper hand in this issue.

Precisely. Multimedia is a patent mine field. For something like MP3, there might be multiple patents that apply to different parts of the technology held by different entities. Even if you decide to pay some of the alleged patent holders, you might still be sued by another entity. This is what happened in the Microsoft lawsuit. Refer to the earlier link I gave you.

Suppose a musician records a disc.  He/she recorded
that disc with a record company the record company is
the one that holds the key to the success of the
company.  If the artist wanted to put the music on the
net for free downloading, the record company would
refuse to abide by the artists intentions.
Who holds the patent to the disc, the creator, or the
company?

Patents don't apply to any of these people. Only copyrights do. Patents apply to the specific part of the encoders/decoders.

Does not Microsoft have they lead here?  They cannot
play a DVD by default?

They don't have any advantage as far as DVD players are concerned.

  I agree
with many things, but I do not know why many people
say that many of these things are free.

Some of the decoders are free and open source but paten encumbered. If you are in a region that does not enforce software patents, the decoders are indeed free and legal for you.

Rahul

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