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

[Segher Boessenkool]

Steven Bailey wrote:
> 
> 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

No it's not. Really. These mathematical relations even are named after
somebody else (whose name I forgot), who thought of-em quite a few
years earlier. To postulate these are the _real_ laws of physics (as
opposed to Newton's), and to say time==space, _is_ of course Einstein's
work. Nobody is arguing about that, I think :-)

> could not patent those fundamental and derived relationships?  Isn't

According to Dutch laws, he can't.

> that sort of patenting *exactly* what FHG and Thompson and God knows who
> else have been doing for years?

They can't patent a mathematical property; they _can_ patent using a
mathematical property for a certain property (i.e., coding audio).

>         Sorry if I'm coming on a little defensive here.  We've all got our
> heros.  :}

No more heroes, I'm afraid :-|

Dagdag,

Segher

(btw: I _do_ like relativity theory :-)

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