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Software patents don't exist in most of the worldSoftware patents don't exist in most of the worldPosted Jan 28, 2010 0:02 UTC (Thu) by roc (subscriber, #30627)In reply to: Software patents don't exist in most of the world by dion Parent article: Blizzard: HTML5 video and H.264 - what history tells us and why we're standing with the web
The assumption that H.264 is not patented outside the USA is wrong.
http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/bz/archives/020400.html
Maybe all the non-US patents are noneforceable, but that's at best unproven.
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Software patents don't exist in most of the world Posted Jan 28, 2010 14:53 UTC (Thu) by dion (subscriber, #2764) [Link]
Well, as the linked page says software patents are thankfully still illegal around here, but that's no reason not to avoid H.264, hardware vendors are still in as much of a jam as the US ones.
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