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2010 May 01
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Mutually assured minefields.
...read by the license
holders of competing formats in order to discourage the use of
unencumbered alternatives. They are careful to avoid naming WHO
owns these supposed patents or WHAT is actually patented, because
such specific statements would allow the victims of this FUD to
petition a court for a declaratory judgment of non-infringement.
This FUD is particularly effective because there _is_ a widespread
misconception that media codecs are a patent minefield to a greater
extent than other areas of software.
Certainly this is the case for the MPEG codecs, but it is not a
universal truth. To understand...