- From: Gareth Hay <gazhay@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 08:35:05 +0000
Not in the EU, no such thing as a software patent. On 23 Mar 2007, at 04:55, Ian Hickson wrote: > On Fri, 23 Mar 2007, Robert Sayre wrote: >> >> MPEG-4 is proprietary, because it is covered by patents. > > I hate to be the one to break this to you, but CSS is covered by > patents, > HTML is covered by patents, the DOM is covered by patents, > JavaScript is > covered by patents, and so forth. Proprietary technologies are > those that > are under the control of a single vendor. MPEG-4 is not proprietary. > > It's not available under royalty free licensing. But it is not > under the > control of a single vendor. That is the important difference, not > whether > the technology is patented or not. > > -- > Ian Hickson U+1047E ) > \._.,--....,'``. fL > http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _ > \ ;`._ ,. > Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'-- > (,_..'`-.;.'
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