- From: Geoffrey Sneddon <foolistbar@googlemail.com>
- Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 18:45:01 +0000
On 11 Dec 2007, at 18:15, Manuel Amador (Rudd-O) wrote: > El Mar 11 Dic 2007, Dave Singer escribi?: >> I'm sure that many people would be happy to see a mandate if someone >> were willing to offer an indemnity against risk here. You seem quite >> convinced there is no risk; are you willing to offer the indemnity? > > No. Unlike Apple, I don't have a huge patent portfolio. My patent > count > reaches the awesome number of *zero*. Would you be willing to offer > patent > indemnity to unlicensed users of your Apple AAC audio format? > Because I fail > to see why leaving users without a free choice for audio *helps* > things. I > dunno, maybe I'm just dumb as a rock. That's not what Dave is meaning: If Apple gets sued for patent infringement, will you pay however many billion USD they have to? If you truly believe there are no patents covering Ogg/etc. then you can safely agree knowing that you'll never have to give away any of your money. -- Geoffrey Sneddon <http://gsnedders.com/>
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