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The list probably did not get this reply from D Richard Felker III. Having read quite a few patents I tend to agree with Richard: Software patents are very broad and even if I have not read the source code of Theora I would be surprised if it did not infringe several patents. However, I believe the argument that On2 has not been sued for infringing the MPEG-patents is a very strong argument.

I know Tarkin is not the priority right now, but when it becomes it's good to know which company might feel nervous... ------------------------------------------ Compaq sued for alleged patent violations By Bloomberg News November 20, 2000, 5:30 a.m. PT WILMINGTON, Del.--Compaq Computer, the world's biggest personal computer maker, has been sued by a group for allegedly infringing

Hi, We are in the business of developing/productizing Multimedia codecs for embedded systems. Recently, Vorbis has gained good popularity. We are also developing it. But we face few problems related to patents. Vorbis claims to be patent free. Is there any particular search made for possible patent infringements and corresponding report published? We need to convince our customers sometime

On Thu, 2018-09-06 at 15:10 -0400, Mike Burger wrote: > On 2018-09-06 14:06, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: > > Attempting to lookup why rsyslogd is listening on the high port > > UDP/51427.????Have not succeeded in what this port is used for and > > what directive controls what interface it binds to. > > [root at bedrock ~]# netstat --listen --inet --program --numeric |

Hi, I have validation working in a situation similar to the following. (Please forgive any minor typos below) class Department < ActiveRecord::Base has_many :people end class Person < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :department validates_presence_of :name end @department = Department.new(:name=>"bedrock") @department.people << Person.new(:name=>"fred")

Hi, I am having trouble getting RMySQL running on a solaris machine. [43] bedrock:/home/jayoung/source_codes/R/other_packages> uname -a SunOS bedrock 5.10 Generic_118833-36 sun4v sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-T200 I thought I had finally managed to get it installed, albeit with some warnings that I didn't understand (it took me a while to find where our mysql libraries were), but when I tried

Hi, I'm having trouble compiling R-2.10.0 (R-patched_2009-11-02.tar.gz) on solaris 10 and am hoping for some advice. I'm getting errors about having the wrong version of lib_I_dbg_gen.so.1 ("version `DBG_GEN_5.1' not found"), when it gets to the step of compiling recommended packages (cluster). I think we do have the right version of lib_I_dbg_gen.so.1 on the

Does the reason Theora is relatively safe from patent infringement lawsuit have more to do with it actually not being encumbered, or is it because its use is decentralized? For example, FreeType is not patent-free, nor is Linux, yet they succeed because on the one hand, they are open source, and those who maintain them do not guarantee anything regarding patents, it is up to each individual user

There's a groklaw article summarizing recent discussion about the impact of the Bilski case on software patents: http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20081102011538422 "The judge says this kind of cloning could be done without infringing Microsoft's copyrights, but how about its patents? Prior to Bilski, one might give one answer. Now, one might give another." If we

Hi, I've successfully updated our linux version of R to 2.9.0 but am having trouble on our solaris machine. I had previously installed 2.8.1 and earlier versions without trouble. I'm using R-patched_2009-05-20.tar.gz (I had also tried the 2009-05-10 version). Here's some info on our machine (I'm not the sysadmin): [2] bedrock:/home/jayoung> uname -a SunOS bedrock 5.10

Hi Samba List, Iam new to this list and want to describe my *little* Problem. We are using in our company an Network with roundabout 200 Clients running W2k/SP2. Our PDC is an W2k Server with Active Directory enabled. Any User is connected to the Active Directory fine , and holds his Profile on this PDC. As Home Share and one Public Share we use an Linux Box with SuSE 7.3 (kernel 2.4.10, samba

I await Luke''s node settings implementation with interest. At the moment however, I have this sort of ugliness: $site = $hostname ? { fred => "opsera", barney => "bedrock", default => "unknown site", ... } So I''ve knocked up this little function to use CSV files instead. Now I can just do: $site =

o <- (structure(list(sand.silt = structure(list(statistic = structure(185, .Names = "W"), parameter = NULL, p.value = 0.0478835773838087, null.value = structure(0, .Names = "location shift"), alternative = "two.sided", method = "Wilcoxon rank sum test with continuity correction", data.name = ".column by site"), .Names =

Attempting to lookup why rsyslogd is listening on the high port UDP/51427. Have not succeeded in what this port is used for and what directive controls what interface it binds to. [root at bedrock ~]# netstat --listen --inet --program --numeric | grep syslog udp??0??0 0.0.0.0:51427??0.0.0.0:*???66655/rsyslogd? -- Adam Tauno Williams <mailto:awilliam at whitemice.org> GPG D95ED383

We can't do that until we provide a reasonable way for SMB1 clients to connect, probably via a SMB1 -> SMB2 proxy based on the NTVFS file server (where we had such a prototype until very recently). It won't be perfect SMB1, but needs to be enough for basic operation. I'm quite convinced Samba and SMB1 are critical infrastructure in many places and while we may dislike SMB1 for

In an article on theregister.co.uk, you wrote: > Either project - or any other open source MP3 encoder, for that matter > - could check out the open source codec, Ogg Vorbis, which offers > comparable size and sound quality to MP3. We don't know if it's any > good, and it's unlikely - for the time being at least - to be > supported by portable music players,

Hi radeonhd, nouveau, mesa3d developers, Firstly, thank you all very much for all the important work you do. I've been working as a part-time developer on the "Spring RTS" project (open-source game engine) which runs on linux (and other os). Some time ago I tried the engine on the open-source ATI radeonhd driver, which I understand to be partly based on mesa 3d, and all textures

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/12/01/richard_bennett_utorrent_udp/ FUD? Interesting? Boring? New news? Old news? -- Alex Balashov Evariste Systems Web : http://www.evaristesys.com/ Tel : (+1) (678) 954-0670 Direct : (+1) (678) 954-0671 Mobile : (+1) (706) 338-8599

-- snip -- Had the patch been against the actual g729 libraries the case would have been clear. Now, the patch is against asterisk to make it interoperate with the g729 libarary and this may or may not be non-infringing. However, the distribution of the g729 libraries themselves are almost certainly infringing. There is also the possibility that the patch to asterisk may be ruled a

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