similar to: Patents on algorithms harm data analytic services

Hi Clive, > Well, apparently, no pure software solution can be patented (hardware can), > least that's what I saw on the national news here in the UK 2 weeks ago. Well, that is prety wrong. It is right on the paper, but the EPA which - i shame about taht - resides in my city have allready accepted ilegaly over 10000 trival patents on allgorithem and so one, so it becomes hart to fight

Here in the uk, to get a patent on anything, you have to prove that the patent is not obvious and that there is no prior art. If there is prior art, then a patent cannot be given, this is why people patenting stuff have to keep it a secret until they actually have the patent, otherwise it is considered to have been released into the public domain. Once something is in the public domain, nobody

BIOSs that don't support ISOLINUX, and it would be really helpful if you could tell us what the seriousness of the problem is, because we are supposed to be releasing Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 in about 3 weeks, so testing time is short. Do you know how the standard multiboot feature of mkisofs comapres to all of these? It's supposed to fail on some BIOSes, but in a way that means that you

Hello, When rsync'ing over an ISDN 64kb/s channel, I get reported mostly 0 kB/s: 1287 100% 0.00kB/s 0:00:00 home/httpd/html/mirrors/developer.apple.com/techpubs/macosx/System/Documentation/Developer/YellowBox/TasksAndConcepts/JavaTutorial/3.JavaDebugging/toc.html 731 100% 0.00kB/s 0:00:00

I suppose it could be possible to patent something and let the patent expire so that it is registered at the patent office but not enforcable. No one else could patent it then. I get curious about the RLE patent. I heard Someone has a patent on run length encoding and I wonder how long they have had it because I remember RLE code running on a sinclair spectrum in the 80's before the whole

Well, apparently, no pure software solution can be patented (hardware can), least that's what I saw on the national news here in the UK 2 weeks ago. Clive --- >8 ---- List archives: http://www.xiph.org/archives/ Ogg project homepage: http://www.xiph.org/ogg/ To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to 'speex-dev-request@xiph.org' containing only the word

The specific standards process used to develop the MPEG codecs creates patent minefields that royalty-free codecs don't generally face. Because many knowledgeable people have heard of the problems faced by these patent-soup standards, they may extrapolate these risk to codecs developed under a different process where these problems are less considerable. This is a mistake, and I'll explain

Hi, Just like Stegan earlier in this list, I wanted to report the same bug. I am not sure if it has changed already. -- <ard@telegraafnet.nl> Telegraaf Elektronische Media http://wwwijzer.nl http://leerquoten.monster.org/ http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1855.html Let your government know you value your freedom. Sign the petition: http://petition.eurolinux.org/

I hate following up to myself, but I thought a clarification of one point (specifically WRT RC5 which was mentioned in the original question) might be worthwhile...because what I should have said originally was that "To the best of my non-legally- admissible knowledge, however, none of the algorithms in the current *OpenSSH* implementation are currently encumbered by patents that would

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.

Sunil-- Actually, you do not "see that openssl has some patent issues." You do see that OpenSSL implements many algorithms, some of which have been (at various times) been patented or encumbered in some countries. Without knowing what country you're in, none of us here can really give useful advice as to which software/algorithm patents could potentially apply. To the best of my

Craig Dickson (crdic@yahoo.com) wrote : > Jack Moffitt wrote: > > > I agree that this might be the case. But what happens with the > > violation is by the author? :) > > > > Ie, in the case of PlusV releasing a patented codec under the GPL or in > > the case of LAME or FreeType's authors doing similar things. What > > state is that? > >

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

AFAIK g729 patent is expiring sometime in 2019-2020. Mitul Limbani On Feb 8, 2017 5:02 AM, "Victor Villarreal" <mefhigoseth at gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Steve, > > I understand your question and your point, but I use the g729 codec from > the link that Carlos share, for almost 6 years from Asterisk 1.4 to v13 > without a single problem. > > So, sory but I

I'm forwarding the email I sent to the radiohead website support , asking that they consider using open formats, as sugested In the #vorbis irc channel I posted this in the wiki to serve as a basis for a more thought out and articulated draft for a email campaing, pettion, and as monty suggested I'm also forwarding it here, to see if we organize a petition/email campaign to get their

hi, I'm look around to find a usable imap server and find dovecot. I read all the docs, but I've got a few questions: - currently we use courier (since we find and install it quickly). can we switch from it to dovecot smoothly? or we have to convert the maildirs somehow? - I've got a few plan in my mind it it possible to do it with dovecot now or in the near future (if yes what

> Take a look at: > > http://swpat.ffii.org/patents/effects/voip/index.en.html Well, outside of the Speex link, that page seems to be pretty old... > Is speex realy petant free or does patent free only means that > is is not patent by the speex authors? Who have checked that > speex doesn't violates patents others? I don't use IP here, > because most patents are

Dear all, I would like to produce a map with information about the patenting activity in German districts, by coloring districts with different degrees of patenting activity in different colors. I work with the packages maptools, maps and spdep. The map data is read from an external .shp file (+ the corresponding .shx and .dbf files). Plotting a map with the IDs or the patenting indicator itself

On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 6:34 AM, Andrew Joakimsen <joakimsen at gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 11:34 PM, Tilghman Lesher > <tilghman at mail.jeffandtilghman.com> wrote: >> It is completely illegal in any country that recognizes patents. > > You mean countries that recognize software patents, right? As resident of country where the file is hosted - yes we

Hi everyone, first of all, I searched through the archives for any posts resembling this, I didn't read all posts about the patents so if this has been suggested before I apologise. I read in an article on C|Net (I think, it was linked from Slashdot anyway) that Thompson are threatening to sue you if Ogg Vorbis becomes a success. Which is evil, and I'm also mad at them because they never