Codec Buddy in Fedora 8

Well, patents or no patents juridically, lots of things surrounding the MP3 encoding algorithm
was somehow patented anyway even in Europe. So it's not a clear cut case of innovation
"without software patents".

That said, I personally firmly believe the world would be much better off without them. The
number one problem right now is the lack of standards, everywhere in the IT sector. And
patents are what slows them and encourages competing standards. Even if we would have had to
wait an extra year for compressed music to appear, it would have been _so_ worth it.