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

From: Thomas Vecchione <seablaede@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Thu Mar 01 2007 - 00:13:40 EET

>>
>
> That's exactly what I mean. No one cares when people abuse the broken
> US patent system to make life hard for a bunch of free software
> developers. Maybe things will improve now that it's happening to
> people like Research in Motion and Microsoft and big pharma, who are
> in a position to buy some legislation to fix it.

Yes but do you really think they would buy legislation to fix the
system, or just to strengthen their own position?

I will agree it is an example of the system being abused.

          Seablade
Received on Thu Mar 1 04:15:02 2007

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