[vorbis] Fruanhofer patents and royalties for Streaming

[Robert J Lynn Jr]

It's a big corporation! They could take Vorbis to court and shut the whole
company down (iCast, in the case now, actually, but not for long) just from
legal fees. If you look, the USPTO grants a lot of generic patents -
Amazon's one click shopping, CDDB's searchable database patent, etc.
-Rob
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tim Gustafson" <tim at falconsoft.com>
To: <vorbis at xiph.org>; <vorbis at xiph.org>
Sent: Saturday, December 09, 2000 8:23 PM
Subject: Re: [vorbis] Fruanhofer patents and royalties for Streaming

>
> >I think that he's being very helpful by letting us know that we have
about 1
> >month to get moving so we aren't relying on ANYTHING on Fraunhofer by the
> >1st of January. And, what he MEANS is that the VORBIS STREAMING PROJECT
> >ITSELF could be in danger of being out of funds if Fraunhofer were to
take
> >it to the courts.
>
> What grounds would they take Vorbis to court over?  As I understand it,
> they don't have a single claim.
>
> I would like to say that I think it's a good idea to set up some way of
> (anonymously?) donating money to the project by credit card or other means
> now.  I would be happy to donate what I can to the cause, and I don't even
> need any assurances that the money will be returned if it's not used - I
> trust Monty and his crew will continue the project, even if it's at a much
> slower pace.
>
> I would be happy to donate the time needed to set up such a web site and
> also to host it here in my office if that would get this started.  I think
> it's critical to the project's success.
>
> Tim
>
>
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