Les Mikesell wrote:
Alan Cox wrote:
Did you happen to not notice that virtually every Dell currently
shipped has mp3 playback loaded - also WMA and most would have dvd too.
Did you happen to notice that Dell and various other vendors were sued
for shipping MP3 (the suit Microsoft then took up and just lost the first
round of for $1.2 billion...
Feel free to do your own distro using MP3 if you've got $1.2 billion to
spare.
Alan
That's a valid point, but in the US anyone can sue anyone else over just
about anything and it's not over till the appeals are used up. How can
you be sure that someone won't claim ownership of some obscure parts of
Linux and sue over that - again?
Just because people can sue over anything does not mean that you should
knowingly infringe a patent or take that risk unnecessarily which will
result in triple damages. That's very close to the
suggestion security holes in Internet explorer does not matter since
Firefox has security holes too. As usual you are just arguing for the
sake or having a argument here.
Rahul
