[vorbis] AC-3 Decoding

Craig Dickson crdic at yahoo.com
Wed Aug 8 11:24:57 PDT 2001



Hongli Lai wrote:

> Somebody managed to patent the wheel (!!!), so it's not unlikely
> that writing to WAV files and /dev/dsp won't get patented. :)
> 
> I'll just pay the patent office loads of money and there:
> I patented oxygen! Now you all have to pay me $$$! Mwahahaha!

I saw a joke recently where someone made up a fake patent application
(at least, I hope it was fake) where they were essentially patenting
photosynthesis, or patenting some basic chemical process that is
essential to the way chlorophyll functions in plants. The idea was to
get this patent through and then hit up the entire plant kingdom for
royalties.

Craig

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