[Gllug] [Fwd: [piksel] Outrageous disaster: Ogg/Vorbis spec taken out of HTML-5]

[James Roberts]

Alain Williams wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 05:24:21PM +0000, James Roberts wrote:
>> Alain Williams wrote:
>>> The onus is on a s/ware developer/... to dig through all patents, and then
>>> wait for the one that hasn't been made public to come & hit him.
>> Umm? Patents *are* public - by definition.
> 
> A submarine patent is one that sits in the 'pending' state for many years.
> It is thus invisible but when it surfaces it can then be used to extract
> cash for something that has become popular (partly because people thought
> it was free).

Ah - thanks. Got that now. So we mean, not-patents, then?

MeJ
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