<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 9:37 PM, Tom "spot" Callaway <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tcallawa@redhat.com">tcallawa@redhat.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">On 12/23/2009 03:34 PM, Chris Adams wrote:<br>
> Once upon a time, Michael Cronenworth <<a href="mailto:mike@cchtml.com">mike@cchtml.com</a>> said:<br>
>> Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:<br>
>>> (Yes, the irony of a talk on software patents being offered in MP3<br>
>>> format is not lost on me.)<br>
>><br>
>> Just think... one more year... one more year...<br>
><br>
> It doesn't look like that is the case:<br>
><br>
> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mp3#Licensing_and_patent_issues" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mp3#Licensing_and_patent_issues</a><br>
> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:MP3#Patents" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:MP3#Patents</a><br>
<br>
</div>It's not one more year. I've got the dates written down somewhere, I<br>
could dig them out if you want them, but it isn't soon.<br>
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</div></div></blockquote></div><br><div>I'm not sure, but I think the mp3 patents would have all expired by 2021. So we have a LONG time to wait...</div><div><br></div><div>Here's where I got the list: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:MP3#Expiration_of_Patents">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:MP3#Expiration_of_Patents</a></div>