[MPlayer-dev-eng] FFII software patent demo, politics, KiSS

[Enrico Weigelt]

* Diego Biurrun <diego at biurrun.de> [2004-04-21 00:12:16 +0200]:

> D Richard Felker III writes:
> > I'm against any kind of "patent-warning" in MPlayer. It discourages
> > people from using good codecs. Better to get people used to having all
> > the codecs they should, so that they're outraged when some stupid
> > corporation tries to tell them they have to stop.
> 
> That's one way to see it.  The other is: Awareness of patent problems
> needs to be raised so that people see the need for free formats and
> have an incentive do something about it.

Right. We all (all coders, opensource projects as well als SMEs) must
act now - before the patent nightmare comes true in other regions 
like Europe. We (FFII - http://www.ffii.org) are doing much lobby work 
in the EU parliament and commission for save Europe from this disaster:
http://swpat.ffii.org/

I would be really good, if OSS projects like mplayer also would show
no tolerance to software patents.


cu
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