[MPlayer-dev-eng] Two feasible solutions to avoid troubles caused by trivial software patents

[Rich Felker]

On Fri, Jun 24, 2005 at 02:15:42PM +0200, Dirk wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> 1) Drastic solution:
> In China there is *NO* software patent from LAW's prospective. If you

Yes, there's just a total lack of freedom of speech instead. No
thanks...

> 2) Technical solution:
> Use Bittorrent to download difficult-to-develop (trivial-patent) codecs
> dynamically during runtime. I'm writing a audio player that will play
> everything-that-makes-noise and which will maybe use Bittorrent or just
> http for downloading codecs from the project site in china.
> 
> Stop whining and show them the consequences.

No one is whining, you're just clueless about strategy.

Rich