[vorbis] MOre streaming media to ponder

[Mike Coleman]

Segher Boessenkool <segher at wanadoo.nl> writes:
> To get a patent they will have to design something _new_, while actually all
> they need is a stream format and some protocols.  If they _do_ invent
> something great && new for streaming media, why shouldn't they get a patent?
> It's their legal right, after all.

Would that it were this way.  These days, at least in the US, all you have to
do is _spell_ it new.

--Mike


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