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Patent hassles for OpenMokoPatent hassles for OpenMokoPosted Nov 17, 2008 0:13 UTC (Mon) by oever (subscriber, #987)Parent article: Patent hassles for OpenMoko
Excuse me, but I'm confused by this sentence: "The OpenMoko project did not need to run into this particular hassle.". Are you suggesting "this particular hassle" could have been avoided somehow?
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Patent hassles for OpenMoko Posted Nov 17, 2008 6:20 UTC (Mon) by ctg (subscriber, #3459) [Link]
No, it's just a figure of speech. A bit like the idiom "I needed this like a hole in the head". Meaning that "need == 0".
Patent hassles for OpenMoko Posted Nov 17, 2008 16:01 UTC (Mon) by sepreece (subscriber, #19270) [Link]
+1
However, I have to say I read the sentence twice, thinking Jon had posted the story before it was complete, before I realized it was meant to be read that way...
Didn't need that hassle Posted Nov 17, 2008 21:27 UTC (Mon) by corbet (editor, #1) [Link] It was meant to be read that way. However, if I would hold off on posting news for, say, 24 hours after flying across an ocean, I might be more successful in meaning to say things that create less confusion among my readers... I'll work on that.
Patent hassles for OpenMoko Posted Nov 21, 2008 19:33 UTC (Fri) by giraffedata (subscriber, #1954) [Link] No, it's just a figure of speech. A bit like the idiom "I needed this like a hole in the head". Meaning that "need == 0". Actually, it's a rhetorical way of saying "need < 0," as is clear from the hole in the head analogy. The point is that the project needs, to some extent, not to have this hassle.
Patent hassles for OpenMoko Posted Nov 17, 2008 9:45 UTC (Mon) by wingo (subscriber, #26929) [Link]
Another possible interpretation would be that OpenMoko could have avoided this by not producing images with MP2/MP3 codecs in them.
Patent hassles for OpenMoko Posted Nov 17, 2008 10:06 UTC (Mon) by pharm (guest, #22305) [Link]
As I understand things, the OpenMoko phones don't ship with MP2/3 playback in the code, but they
had an MP3 logo on the outside of the box for some reason (perhaps this functionality was planned at some point in the past?). There's a company in Germany who makes their money by holding up anything with mp3 on it at the border and demanding payment to license patents that they claim covers any mp3 decoding in order to release the shipment: if the importer doesn't pay up, the customs holdings charges will rapidly destroy any profits they stand to make, so they don't have a great deal of choice.
Patent hassles for OpenMoko Posted Nov 17, 2008 16:21 UTC (Mon) by macc (subscriber, #510) [Link]
Neither the black box nor the green banderole
has any MP3 (like) markings. Just looked ;-)
As shipped:
macc
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