Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] invision patents .. shut down ALL soft-synths/samplers in the world :-)
From: David Olofson (david_AT_gardena.net)
Date: Fri Jul 21 2000 - 17:53:11 EEST
On Thu, 20 Jul 2000, Benno Senoner wrote:
> Just to show how flawed the US software patent system is:
>
> I just looked at one of the Invision patents:
> http://patent.womplex.ibm.com/details?&pn=US05596159__&s_clms=1#clms
>
> basically they patented the concept of a softsynth/softsampler on a PC.
Oops, so my little softsynth - practically useless as it is - might
still get me into trouble? ;-)
Oops again - I just remembered that I hacked a pure softsampler (ie
mixing up to 16 voices fully in software, using a hardware trick to
output the result in 14 bit stereo) on the Amiga a few years ago as
well... *hehe* Unfortunately, I can't remeber that I ever released it
to the public. (Most people didn't have CPU enough for 4 voices on
that thing back then!)
Oh, well. Back to work.
//David
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