Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] EVO status...was: (open-source like hardware)
From: M. Edward (Ed) Borasky ("M.)
Date: Wed Jan 16 2002 - 01:43:25 EET
On Tue, 15 Jan 2002, Richard A. Smith wrote:
> Further on the sampler side. I have purchased the patent and
> challenge history for both of the patents held by Conexant and Nemesis
> for a computer/disk based sampler. The patents are very broad and
> IMHO very bogus.
>
> I have also been in contacted by Nemesis and they have indicated that
> if I were to do anything that infringes on thier patent(s) they _WILL_
> litigate. My initial inquiries with a patent attorney indicates that
> a typical patent fight runs about a Million dollars. A little more
> than I can afford currently.
Recording audio to disk? Didn't Max Matthews / Laurie Spiegel and friends
at the Bell Telephone Labs invent that? The "GROOVE" system? Back in the
1960s or 1970s?? Check Laurie's web page :-).
-- M. Edward Borasky znmeb_AT_borasky-research.netThe COUGAR Project http://www.borasky-research.com/Cougar.htm How to Stop A Folksinger Cold # 1 "Home, home on the range, where the deer and the antelope play..." The antelope cheats.
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