Theora patents [LWN.net]

Theora patents

Posted Feb 5, 2010 9:07 UTC (Fri) by DonDiego (guest, #24141)
In reply to: Theora patents by rahulsundaram
Parent article: Blizzard: HTML5 video and H.264 - what history tells us and why we're standing with the web

I haven't done any sort of analysis, nor did I claim to have done so. I just posted a bunch of links that we stumbled upon after a quick search. It shows that there are plenty of patents out there that are potentially infringed and that saying "Just trust us." is not enough. You'll have to come up with something better than an unsubstantiated promise.

If the patent analysis can be used as a weapon it's because patents are being infringed.

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Theora patents

Posted Feb 5, 2010 16:27 UTC (Fri) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link] (2 responses)

You throwing a bunch of links really serves no purpose other than
unsubstantiated FUD Anybody can throw such links and if you make a claim
that a technology is patent encumbered the burden of proof is on you and not
on anyone else

There are lots of people including Xiph and Mozilla which have done such
analysis and their actions on distributing the codec is enough to show their
decision and your claim that the only reason not to publish it because there
is infringement is plain wrong and shows zero understanding of the issues
involved

Refer http://lwn.net/Articles/373094/

Theora patents

Posted Feb 5, 2010 22:54 UTC (Fri) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link] (1 responses)

I notice that you don't seem to be describing any of these 'issues
involved', only alluding to them. (Also, your . key has apparently failed
in the last few days. Sentences are much easier to read with the
occasional one in.)

Theora patents

Posted Feb 6, 2010 5:06 UTC (Sat) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link]

Yes indeed my keyboard has some issues and I need to get it replaced and
for now a few important keys are not working The issues involved were
described in the link and you could read that without having me repeat it