>>>>> On Sun, 2 May 1999 07:51:05 -0700, Joseph Carter <knghtbrd@debian.org> said: Joseph> [1 <text/plain; us-ascii (7bit)>] On Sun, May 02, 1999 at Joseph> 11:28:55AM +0100, James Troup wrote: >> > > We *do* care if, say, Apple comes up with some kind of >> > > streaming media server and patents the codec. >> > >> > This makes free implementations of that codec non-us. => >> >> Assuming they only patent it in the US. Joseph> Software patents in pretty much the rest of the world are Joseph> illegal. Including Germany for that matter. FYI (from the patent-news mailing list):
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