It's a sad state of affairs that the hardware manufacturers allow patent trolls to bully them.
They alone have the power to move everyone to ogg vorbis support, and out of the vicious circle of existing device support fuelling new device demand cycle.
Never mind the fact I think patents are just plain bad for our (uk) economy.
English court cannot hear SanDisk MP3 patent case
Anonymous Coward
Which patents? #
Posted Wednesday 7th March 2007 14:05 GMT
It seems to me that MP3 couldn't possibly have all these inventions in it.
MP3 is:
1. Conversion from spacial domain to frequency domain. This is Fourier mathematics (1600's Mathematician).
2. Removal of frequency components that are masked by other sounds present. (The big idea claimed by Frauenhofer labs).
3. Huffman compression (MIT 1952).
Looks like a troll to me, all of those companies couldn't possibly own patents in what is a relatively simple system.
Tim Abell
boo hoo, mp3 is patented, so support ogg vorbis #
Posted Wednesday 7th March 2007 15:43 GMT
It's a sad state of affairs that the hardware manufacturers allow patent trolls to bully them.
They alone have the power to move everyone to ogg vorbis support, and out of the vicious circle of existing device support fuelling new device demand cycle.
Never mind the fact I think patents are just plain bad for our (uk) economy.