On 6 Mar 2007 at 17:02, Richard Nagle wrote:
> is this the sign of the the times, that closed source compression formats,
> are going to be dead... since Microsoft is being sued for 1.5 Billion for
> using .mp3 in
> there Vista OS.
Ignoring whether the claim is valid or not, an open-source compression does in
no
way guarantee that software patents are not involved. It's the software
patents,
not the "binary only". However many companies think if they publish
binary-only,
noone can see where their code came from, not to talk about intellectual rights,
etc.
The other thing is that most users of MP3 don't care about owning a license
for
using it, and some people even think that when using LAME (a binary using LAME)
does not require them to have an MP3 license. I also think that most vendors of
MP3 players in the far east do not care much about paying license fees for MP3.
>
> Long Live open source.
Log live quality software!
Regards,
Ulrich