[vorbis] Fruanhofer patents and royalties for Streaming

[Patrick Mauritz]

On Sat, Dec 09, 2000 at 08:32:41PM -0500, Robert J Lynn Jr wrote:
> It's a big corporation! They could take Vorbis to court and shut the whole
afaik Fraunhofer is a german company (supported by the german government that is)
- that means: there aren't that much possibilities of crazy hijacking-via-court
as there are in america (and maybe in other countries as well) - remember that
the constitution of the USA only applies to certain parts of north-america!


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