On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 05:09:23PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: > * Andrew Suffield: > > >> You deleted the part about the patent on a transmission system > >> involving compression. The relevant European patents are EP 0400755, > >> EP 0402973, EP 0599824 and EP 0660540. > > > > That's the usual mindless fluff patent, which applies to just about > > everything, like the (now expired) patent on linked lists. We ignore > > them unless we have reason not to, because otherwise we'd never get > > anything done. > > > > Still not a patent on decoding. > > Quite a number of licensees disagree with your assessment of the > situation, and I'm sure at least some of them have paid actual patent > lawyers. I'm sure those lawyers didn't talk to you. You're parrotting the output of the marketing departments of the patent holders, which may (but probably does not) match what the lawyers think. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- |
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