[MPlayer-dev-eng] Sorenson 3 encoding :)))))

[D Richard Felker III]

On Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 08:54:35PM +0100, gabor farkas wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 02:05:18PM -0500, D Richard Felker III wrote:
>  
> > Giving up and using a crappy codec (vp3) is called losing. It's not
> > being smart or making a political statement or anything, it's just
> > plain losing. Standing up for the right to write any code you please
> > (free speech!) is the only honorable course of action.
> > 
> > If there were a patent-free codec nicer than mpeg4, there wouldn't be
> > much of a practical problem here anyway, but regardless of whether
> > mpeg4 is better or worse than patent-free alternatives, anyone should
> > (and does!) have the right to write code that can be used for encoding
> > or decoding mpeg4 and to discuss, document, or publish that code
> > however he or she pleases.
> >
> 
> this is your idea of how it should be, or you think that it works like
> this.
> 
> if the first one => i agree, if the second one, i don't. :)

Both. Patent law does not cover writing, but the production of
devices. The people who are telling you otherwise, e.g. the mpeg4 guy
you corresponded with, are trying to create new "de facto" law by
convincing the world that their (stupid) opinion is already the law.
If people believe them and succumb to their lies, they have a chance
of success.

Rich