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Story: IBM accused of hypocrisy over patent collaboration
Posted by: Benjamin Henrion (Tuesday 11 January 2005, 6:39 PM)
Maybe Mr MacGann can comment on the Videolan case where DTS has asked the project to remove their support for DTS audio decoding because they were in violation of their EPO patents:
http://kwiki.ffii.org/?Videolan0411En
Yes, patents can hurt Free Software. And directly since Free Software developpers cannot count their users, and even not more pay royalties on that basis. Proprietary vendors can at least pay licence fees in the best case, if they have enough money to do it.
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