Fedora Desktop future- RedHat moves
Antonio Olivares
olivares14031 at yahoo.com
Mon Apr 28 01:17:55 UTC 2008
--- Rahul Sundaram <sundaram at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> Antonio Olivares
>
> > Who is the patent holder in this case?
> > I have two links on one of my pages
> >
> > http://www20.brinkster.com/olivares/
> >
> > http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/
> > http://www.freepatentsonline.com/
> >
> > I understand up to a certain point. But
> apparently
> > there are too many patent owners and it will be
> hard
> > to keep up who has the upper hand in this issue.
>
> Precisely. Multimedia is a patent mine field. For
> something like MP3,
> there might be multiple patents that apply to
> different parts of the
> technology held by different entities. Even if you
> decide to pay some of
> the alleged patent holders, you might still be sued
> by another entity.
> This is what happened in the Microsoft lawsuit.
> Refer to the earlier
> link I gave you.
>
> > Suppose a musician records a disc. He/she
> recorded
> > that disc with a record company the record company
> is
> > the one that holds the key to the success of the
> > company. If the artist wanted to put the music on
> the
> > net for free downloading, the record company would
> > refuse to abide by the artists intentions.
> >
> > Who holds the patent to the disc, the creator, or
> the
> > company?
>
> Patents don't apply to any of these people. Only
> copyrights do. Patents
> apply to the specific part of the encoders/decoders.
>
> > Does not Microsoft have they lead here? They
> cannot
> > play a DVD by default?
>
> They don't have any advantage as far as DVD players
> are concerned.
>
> I agree
> > with many things, but I do not know why many
> people
> > say that many of these things are free.
>
> Some of the decoders are free and open source but
> paten encumbered. If
> you are in a region that does not enforce software
> patents, the decoders
> are indeed free and legal for you.
>
> Rahul
>
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Got it! :) Thanks Rahul for taking the time to
explain these issues. I understand better. The
encooders might be free, but they are patent
encumbered and because of that make it hard to
distribute.
Regards,
Antonio
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