[MPlayer-dev-eng] Two feasible solutions to avoid troubles caused by trivial software patents

[Dirk]

Rich Felker wrote:

>On Fri, Jun 24, 2005 at 02:15:42PM +0200, Dirk wrote:
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>>Hello,
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>>1) Drastic solution:
>>In China there is *NO* software patent from LAW's prospective. If you
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>Yes, there's just a total lack of freedom of speech instead. No
>thanks...
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Yes.. Yes... "And if you want to kill a chinese you write him an email..." 

At least developers have some liberties there that are cut here.

>>2) Technical solution:
>>Use Bittorrent to download difficult-to-develop (trivial-patent) codecs
>>dynamically during runtime. I'm writing a audio player that will play
>>everything-that-makes-noise and which will maybe use Bittorrent or just
>>http for downloading codecs from the project site in china.
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>>Stop whining and show them the consequences.
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>No one is whining, you're just clueless about strategy.
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>Rich
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Reading and bookmarking http://www.ffii.org/ and signing every new,
newer and latest petition of this inflation of petitions _sure_ did help.

But maybe you really have a strategy that I and everyone else who
outsources to China can't think of.

Dirk