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

[Richard Huxton]

Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 05:20:27PM +0000, Alain Williams wrote:
>> The trouble seems to be submarine patents. There is no way of saying out loud:
>>
>> 	We are going to be using this technology, if you have a patent
>> 	speak now or forever hold your peace.
>>
>> 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.
> 
> The worry about submarine patents can apply to basically *any* software
> these days given the crazy stuff approved by the USPTO. So if this is
> their big worry, Apple & Nokia should just get out of the software
> business.  The submarine patent issue just sounds like a convenient
> excuse

The thing is, I've not seen anyone come up with a good reason why Apple 
& Nokia *should* back Ogg/etc. It's not easy for me to see what they (or 
for that matter anyone outside of the "free from patents" community) get 
from it.

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   Richard Huxton
   Archonet Ltd
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