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

[Steven Bailey]

Segher Boessenkool wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 
        Oye.  No one is suggesting that Einstein should have patented basic
algebra and calculus.  Sheesh.
        The fundamental relationships he postulated (E=mc^2 being the one
laymen know about) and the theories he derived from those postulates and
other known physical law *were* *his* *work*.  Are you arguing that he
could not patent those fundamental and derived relationships?  Isn't
that sort of patenting *exactly* what FHG and Thompson and God knows who
else have been doing for years?
        Sorry if I'm coming on a little defensive here.  We've all got our
heros.  :}

Steven

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