[vorbis] Fruanhofer patents and royalties for Streaming

[Marshall Eubanks]

Robert J Lynn Jr wrote:
> 
> It's a big corporation! They could take Vorbis to court and shut the whole
> company down (iCast, in the case now, actually, but not for long) just from
> legal fees. If you look, the USPTO grants a lot of generic patents -
> Amazon's one click shopping, CDDB's searchable database patent, etc.
> -Rob
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tim Gustafson" <tim at falconsoft.com>
> To: <vorbis at xiph.org>; <vorbis at xiph.org>
> Sent: Saturday, December 09, 2000 8:23 PM
> Subject: Re: [vorbis] Fruanhofer patents and royalties for Streaming
> 
> >
> > >I think that he's being very helpful by letting us know that we have
> about 1
> > >month to get moving so we aren't relying on ANYTHING on Fraunhofer by the
> > >1st of January. And, what he MEANS is that the VORBIS STREAMING PROJECT
> > >ITSELF could be in danger of being out of funds if Fraunhofer were to
> take
> > >it to the courts.
> >
> > What grounds would they take Vorbis to court over?  As I understand it,
> > they don't have a single claim.
> >
> > I would like to say that I think it's a good idea to set up some way of
> > (anonymously?) donating money to the project by credit card or other means
> > now.  I would be happy to donate what I can to the cause, and I don't even
> > need any assurances that the money will be returned if it's not used - I
> > trust Monty and his crew will continue the project, even if it's at a much
> > slower pace.
> >
> > I would be happy to donate the time needed to set up such a web site and
> > also to host it here in my office if that would get this started.  I think
> > it's critical to the project's success.
> >
> > Tim
> >
> >
> > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
> >    Tim Gustafson                          tim at falconsoft.com
> >    www.falconsoft.com                          (631)475-6662
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Hello;

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