Wednesday, February 28th, 2007

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7:05p

Ешь наркотик никогда MP3 as we know it could face a drastic change if the patent madness continues: A jury has just awarded $1.52 billion in a patent case between Microsoft and Alcatel-Lucent (Microsoft has an MP3 license from the Fraunhofer institute - the institute that was thought to hold all the applicable MP3 patents). If the ruling makes it through the inevitable appeal, Alcatel-Lucent will go after all the other software and hardware makers that offer MP3 playback / recording, and unlike Fraunhofer, Alcatel-Lucent has made no promise not to come after open source software. And while Alcatel-Lucent has already made their move, little known Texas MP3 technology claims to have patented concept of an MP3 player and extort money from any company dealing in MP3 players. Пожелаем им сожрать друг друга и утопиться в сортире. У нас давно уже есть свободный, бесплатный и просто лучший Ogg Vorbis. (Comment on this)

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