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| Authored by: JimDiGriz on Monday, February 11 2013 @ 04:47 AM EST |
On January 18th, France Telecom filed an IPR disclosure against Opus citing a single patent under non-royalty free terms.
This raises a key question – what impact does this have on Opus? A close
evaluation indicates that it has no impact on the Opus specification in any
way.
Summary:
A careful reading of the FT patent reveals
that:
- The FT patent does not cover the Opus reference
implementation because critical limitations of the claim are
absent;
- The patent is directed to encoders, therefore it cannot affect
the Opus specification, which only includes conformance tests for the decoder,
and
- With a simple change, we can make non-infringement even more
obvious.
Let’s expand on those points a bit. If you don’t want to
hear about patent claims, you should stop reading this article
now.
(But if you do)
Defending Opus
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, February 11 2013 @ 07:58 AM EST |
"Breaking news" from the BBC
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21411622[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, February 11 2013 @ 03:20 PM EST |
Proposed Amendments
Written by US Lobbyists
Without getting pedantic, the quoted textual
changes appeared to me to be, EU objective, US subjective. That must say
something to the relative trans-Atlantic
attitudes to governance. Europe has
had a few hundred years more experience, and more recent experience, of being
governed by tyrants. The US has never yet enjoyed
that, so their laws are
sliding into the trap where it will be possible. Tyranny starts small, then one
day it's too late.
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| Authored by: designerfx on Monday, February 11 2013 @ 04:56 PM EST |
beyond that I consider reddit to be a relative abomination
of the internet when it comes to communities, I'm humored
that Bill Gates' AMA was so short that it wasn't even on
Reddit's calendar. Beyond that he picked really easy
questions to answer, of course.
https://www.google.com/calendar/embed?
src=amaverify%40gmail.com
What a waste. Gotta love how philanthropic people think he
is as he gives away windows software to establish lock-in in
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