portable support for mpc?
Reply #6 – 2004-03-25 16:30:31
And if you see said threads you will see some people that say Vorbis is actually pretty much in the same "legal" situation as mpc, unproven patent research, blah blah. Just like the Chinese, i couldn't care the less. I know in my country any foreign "IP" won't hold a second. And we do get lots of chinese stuff. In fact, we openly ignore any drug related "IP", if a medicine that can help a health problem in our pupulation exists elsewhere, we reproduce it, period. WTO/WIPO/FTAA can go cry into a corner in the USA. Yes, the Bush administration hates us very much... Oh yes, it is possible to register locally a worldwide know name/trademark and give several headaches to the foreign multinational. Microsoft, Nintendo, Mc Donalds and others know this very well... Want me to register Xiph, Vorbis, Musepack, etc? The point is, the world is not ruled by the same laws everywhere. Sometimes, research is stopped too much in certain places due to the artificial limits imposed by the enforcement of so called "intellectual property". It is a pointless waste of time arguing "legal status" unless you have an important commercial customer, but if you do, you can make that stupid patent research thing that only applies in those countries anyway. So lets get back to topic and do not mention the "legal status" will you? Plenty of enough time wasted in these other threads already.