Klarinet Archive - Posting 000097.txt from 2010/07

From: Alexander Brash <brash@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: [kl] iTunes and mp3
Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2010 14:46:06 -0400

You need to relax. Watching video of funny kittens in a box is not
that important.

Sent from my iPhone

On Jul 7, 2010, at 2:11 PM, Joseph Wakeling <joseph.wakeling@-----.net
> wrote:

> On 07/07/2010 07:33 PM, Eric Dannewitz wrote:
>> So how does this affect the end user?
>
> Massively.
>
> To cite only one example, the reason that everyone is still using that
> buggy, horrible piece of rubbish called Adobe Flash to watch online
> video is because the process of agreeing an international standard for
> streaming web video has been held up -- for years -- because of major
> concerns over software patents.
>
> Think that pushing virtually every internet user into the hands of a
> single supplier isn't a big effect?
>
>> I mean, heck, lets STOP using ALL software that has a patent on it.
>> Which would mean we couldn't use ANYTHING...
>
> No; let's stop using all software for which the patent holders enforce
> onerous licensing schemes. There are plenty of companies who have
> chosen to license their patents in an ethical fashion, permitting
> other
> developers to innovate and invoking the patents only as a defence
> mechanism against patent lawsuits that they themselves fall victim to.
>
> More generally, let's get rid of software patents. They're a textbook
> case of where the intended purpose of patent law (to spur
> innovation) is
> actually having the opposite effect.
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