[vorbis] Here is a link to what they say about "Other Formats"

[Segher Boessenkool]

Angus Griffin wrote:
> 
> I am genuinely scared by any laws allowing people to hold patents on
> mathematical processes. Think of Einstein, he worked in the bloody Swiss
> patent office and didn't care less for patenting any of his maths (unless
> I'm very much mistaken, which is possible!).

The maths of the relativity theory are not Einstein's work.

[Snip]

> Not only that, I am pretty happy to assume that any of the mathematical
> processes they [[Intel]] use were developed many years prior to their implementing
> them.

Well, at one time Intel developed a pretty novel divide implementation ;-)

Dagdag,

Segher

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