[vorbis] music e-commerce using vorbis

[Monty]

On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 05:28:41PM -0800, Dan Hollis wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Feb 2001, Monty wrote:
> > A Fraunhofer exec shot his mouth off on a subject about which he was
> > uninformed, and FhG publically backed down a bit in a statement a few
> > days later (the exact quote is in an article on www.the451.com if I
> > remember correctly; search their site for 'Vorbis'.)
> 
> Quote from 451:
> 
> "Meanwhile, Thomson executives are saying publicly that they believe Ogg
> Vorbis infringes their patents just as much as MP3 does. "We intend to
> vigorously defend our patent portfolio," Arland told the451. "We are
> investigating Ogg Vorbis, and if it infringes our patents, we will defend
> them. If you owned something and someone was stealing it from you, you
> would go after them to get it back. If Ogg Vorbis or anybody else is
> infringing on our patents, we will do the same."

Keep reading.  That's the 'save face' part before they acknowledge
that they haven't even checked if we're infringing.

Monty

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