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Patent hassles for OpenMokoPatent hassles for OpenMokoPosted Nov 17, 2008 10:06 UTC (Mon) by pharm (guest, #22305)In reply to: Patent hassles for OpenMoko by oever Parent article: Patent hassles for OpenMoko
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.
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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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