__/ [ Ian Hilliard ] on Monday 26 February 2007 19:34 \__
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>
>> MP3's Loss, Open Source's Gain
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>> | Now, with a cloud over the de facto industry standard, companies that
>> | rely on MP3 may finally have sufficient motivation to move on. And
>> | that raises some tantalizing possibilities, including a real long
>> | shot: Open-source, royalty-free formats win.
>> `----
>>
>> http://www.wired.com/news/culture/music/0,72785-0.html?tw=wn_technology_1
>>
>> You can taste the irony of Microsoft?s patent positions on MP3 and Linux
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>> | Just when fear enjoys a energetic caddy (Ballmer) on Microsoft's
>> | repeated foray into Linux legal uncertainty, a real law suit with
>> | real trial lawyers and a real jury ironically slaps down Microsoft
>> | as a potential world-record intellectual property (IP) infringer.
>> | Yup, Microsoft the purported victim of Linux, is in fact the major
>> | MP3 format predator, or so says the assemblage of 12 informed peers.
>> `----
>>
>> http://blogs.zdnet.com/Gardner/?p=2419
>
> Microsoft are really caught between the rock and the hardplace. On the one
> hand, Microsoft has been pushing software patents as being their best hope
> to stop the open source movement. On the other hand, their deep pockets
> have attracted a dearth of patent trolls. What is happening to Microsoft at
> the moment is likely to only get worse.
>
> In the mean time, I'm sure that the Chinese are sitting back and laughing
> as the large Western corporations go into a feeding frenzy on each other.
> Those countries without these broken patent laws will clearly be the
> winners out of all this nonsense.
Yes, it has been said before by a couple of people whose stuff I regularly
read. The Asian industry will continue to innovate while the west litigates
(company destroying one another). As far as the Internet is concerned, the
Chinese may already have an edge. Just think about IPv6. It's ironic that
the stuff which was made to defend large companies (not the small guy whose
idea can be stolen by giants) is what's going to have them destored. Not by
the small companies... but by companies that reside in fertile ground for
development.
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