[PD] Use Linux and you will be sued

[slimboyfatboyslim]

Mathieu Bouchard wrote:

>On Fri, 19 Nov 2004, martin pichlmair wrote:
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>>well. i'm quite sure that an industry standard like mpeg4 (and any
>>other legally used codec) is far more secure than an open source
>>project as theora can be. why? because e.g. apple (the de-facto
>>authors of big parts of the mpeg4 standard) can afford lawyers to
>>check the situation, while we can't. and they do deals to protect
>>their assets while we can't.
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>I would agree, but a company has another choice than affording
>lawyers. They can settle right away, licensing the patent, and this has no
>global positive effect, it only solves the problem for THEM. So if, for a
>given patent, companies tend to settle, the opensource side is screwed.
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no way, like what happen to the piracy thing in China, the States always 
want to sue the piracy companies but they simply can't, there are too 
many people......

don't panic, collective force is a way out...........

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>>looks like a horrific future coming ...
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>Sort of like this:
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>  http://artengine.ca/matju/riaaswat.jpg
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>but grimmer. :-)
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and they are pointing at a shivering penguin..........

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Cheers,
SFS