sean <seanlkml@xxxxxxxxxxxx>: > Well, Fraunhofer has this page: > > http://www.iis.fraunhofer.de/amm/licensing/index.html > > Which links to : > > http://www.mp3licensing.com/ > > Which definitely shows royalty fees for decoders. It does. I stand corrected. The page says $50K one time flat fee for a decoder. Is there any good reason Red Hat shouldn't simply buy that license for some outfit with a track record, like the lame developers? MP3 problem solved, relatively cheaply (e.g., less than half the annual cost ofjust one additional full-time coder). Yes, I know feeding patent parasites is unpleasant. But we come back to the central question here: do we want ideological purity at the expense of victory, or do we want actual victory so that *we* get to effectively set the terms of software development in the future? I know which side of that question *I* come down on... -- <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a> -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
