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Apache Software Foundation subpoenaed by Oracle http://lwn.net/Articles/441372/rss
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, Bradley M. Kuhn
!apache Software Foundation receives subpoena from #Oracle America http://ur1.ca/42xhh !eff !faif !android /via @bkuhn
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@jbeatty Make a bash function for "cd" so that when $HOME is the current directory and the argument to the function is ".." you just ignore.
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@bkuhn That's a very good question. Probably not, because they have nowhere near the same sort of publicity...
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@bkuhn this is a dent I wish trolls like @schestowitz would take to heart.
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@bkuhn I'd say it is also true for WebM and thus for Firefox.
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@bkuhn as long as you won't be able to provide a replacement job to people gainfully employed, your argument is just negative.
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@bkuhn or even LibreOffice (cf Sun patent promise on ODF and MSFT patent promise on the Office formats)
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@goforbes28 I'm not sure why I should cry, that's Roy's thing. (notice him crying about some 15-year old "bullying" him)
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@matk Same applies to Wine, but nobody develops FLOSS Linux apps with Wine. ;-)
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@matk that very same reasoning applies to ffmpeg as well.
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@bkuhn I agree the effort of the Mono development where for the good even if it perhaps was misguided.
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@bkuhn Doesnt that depend on what patents have been submitted to the VP8 process rather than any of the patents that MPEG-LA already license
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@rclayton Mono has to implement the way MS chooses for .NET => dependence. FFMpeg implements one standard, which is only set once.
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@matk Also, a language/runtime is more important than video/audio codecs.
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@bkuhn IMHO these swpatents are so absurd that it is virtually impossible not to infringe with WebM ... vice versa MPEG-LA infringes as well
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@matk that doesn't even make sense
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@matk not to most people...
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@rclayton I don't have objections against Mono :P But the problem is MS controlling .NET and that MS is MS. (FFmpeg is not MS related)
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@matk MS, Apple, etc control MPEG as much as MS controls the direction of C#/.NET. Mono is free to change course at any time, though.
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@bkuhn I was replying to "I'd agree that being employed writing proprietary software is bad" not to the blog post with which I agree.
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@hub, I don't disagree that's a negative statement, but if someone is hurting society & being paid for it, I'm going to say so. Period.
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@rclayton But the patent situation for FFmpeg is clear. For Mono, MS does nothing to clarify the situation, which raises doubt.
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@matk I'm not sure how that equates to Mono being riskier?
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