11.13.08
Quick Mention: Philips Attacks Free Software
THE original page is in Spanish, but here is corresponding message in English.
The short story is that we are in a protracted battle with some patent
trolls. Google for Sisvel.
In order to get ourselves in a stronger position, we want to make sure
no copies/instances/whatever of patent-infested technologies like MP2
and MP3 exist on our servers.
Sisvel is a front for Philips [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9]. In other words, Sisvel is to Philips what the RIAA/MPAA is to Universal Studios and what Acacia/Intellectual Ventures can be to Microsoft. █
Screw Philips
pmiller said,
November 19, 2008 at 10:41 pm
Could it be that OpenMoko shipped their phones with libmad?
See
http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/commitlog/2008-August/005774.html
(search for “libmad”)
Libmad is free in the sense of the GPL, but it is patent-encumbered even in Europe:
http://www.mp3licensing.com/patents/index.html
The problem is that most of the mp3 patents are valid worldwide.
See also:
http://beranger.org/index.php?page=diary&2007/05/31/08/09/05
Roy Schestowitz said,
November 20, 2008 at 7:47 am
Interesting, thanks for the info.