- From: Christopher <xiphmont@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 06:38:57 -0500
On Dec 13, 2007 6:18 AM, Maciej Stachowiak <mjs at apple.com> wrote: > It matters in this case because the press release cites large company > (i.e. potential patent troll magnet) deployment of Vorbis, but then > the press release mostly talks about video. Oh, I misunderstood what you meant in that part... but I did go on to directly address your point. > I've also seen people claim that before the design of Theora, an > exhaustive patent search was done and it was deliberately coded to > avoid existing patents, or that it is completely free of known > patents. I think both of these things are true of Vorbis, but I do not > believe they are true of Theora. Here's where we need to get the lawyers all in the same room to even begin talking about it in any detail-- and I think we absolutely should get all those lawyers in the room. > I think the press release may increase confusion on these sorts of > points. I don't think it *is* possible to increase confusion but we're [Xiph] not going to sink because we can't be bothered to keep bailing. We [the larger group] are at an impasse because no one is willing to talk details for fear of liability. We [the larger group] need to find a way past that. > (The press release also talks about MPEG as if it were a monolithic > thing and not several families of codecs and container formats, but I > didn't complain about that because it's less likely to confuse the > discussion in a material way.) Yes, the statement suffers and benefits from brevity. Bevity is the best starting point for a conversation. Now we have to find a way to get all the players willing to discuss details. > Darn, I was all ready to pull on my wrestling singlet. :-) I'm not *nearly* drunk enough to be hearing those words. Monty
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