How will this affect Linux using MP3

[Ian Malone]

Gene Heskett wrote:

> in the back yard make a ruling that on the face of it, goes against 
> everything we know about MP3, eg Fahnhoffer own the patent and who the 
>

The wonderful thing about patents is that there can be more than
one for a particular technology, and in the case of software you
may end up using something that was originally patented for
an utterly different application.

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imalone