[vorbis] Fruanhofer patents and royalties for Streaming

[Robert J Lynn Jr]

Actually, I think they have backing in the USA. I'm not sure, however. Might
be something to look into
----- Original Message -----
From: "Patrick Mauritz" <oxygene-ml at gmx.net>
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Sent: Saturday, December 09, 2000 9:19 PM
Subject: Re: [vorbis] Fruanhofer patents and royalties for Streaming

> 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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