Re: [linux-audio-user] mp3 patent / microsoft

From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@email-addr-hidden-job.com>
Date: Wed Feb 28 2007 - 19:43:50 EET

On 2/28/07, Juhana Sadeharju <kouhia@email-addr-hidden> wrote:
>
> Nobody took this news to this list!?
> Microsoft was ruled to pay about a billion for infringing
> a mp3 patent. When that is verified in higher courts, it
> is expected that many companies will face the same issue.
> I hope the bill for individual Windows users is high enough
> so that OGG starts sounding a good idea.

Personally I am encouraged by news like this. It brings us one step
closer to fixing the US patent system.

Lee
Received on Wed Feb 28 20:15:09 2007

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