[vorbis] Compaq sued for violating video-compression patents

[Kenneth C. Arnold]

According to Aleksandar Dovnikovic (sometime around Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 04:55:47PM +0100):
> I know Tarkin is not the priority right now, but when it becomes
> it's good to know which company might feel nervous...

I will not let this opportunity pass by unnoticed: Where Is Tarkin (sm) ?
Any code at all?

The Compaq sue will be a good precedent. If they actually find patent
violations, at least we will know with more certainty what the patent
claims are and how to avoid them. If there are no patent violations
found when suing a big computer manufacturer, no court will accept a
case of them vs. a little free-codec group.

And what are Compaq's video compression developments anyway? Do they
have some add-on program or codec?


-- 
Kenneth Arnold <ken at arnoldnet.net> / kcarnold / Linux user #180115
http://arnoldnet.net/~kcarnold/



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