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

[Dirk]

Michael Niedermayer wrote:

>Hi
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>On Saturday 25 June 2005 12:34, Dirk wrote:
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>>Rich Felker wrote:
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>>>>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.
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>>>>Stop whining and show them the consequences.
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>>>No one is whining, you're just clueless about strategy.
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>>>Rich
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>>Reading and bookmarking http://www.ffii.org/ and signing every new,
>>newer and latest petition of this inflation of petitions _sure_ did help.
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>it certainly helped more then it will in china in a few years, or are you 
>really so retarded to belive that thouse who try to push the sw patents in 
>europe into the law will let china distribute sw-patent infriging software, 
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Well, Im retarded enough to believe that "in a few years" sounds better
than european-lobbywhore-union's "as soon as possible".