On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 09:23:00PM -0700, David Boles wrote: > > Or mabye there are legal issues with including patented technology with > > Linux/GNU software? > >snip< > How much would you be willing to pay for codecs and then give them away for > free? More to the point, what would you set your asking price if you were selling something to someone who intended to give the product to everyone else for free for all time, including the right to make modified and derivative works? In other words, what's the asking price to completely buy out the needed patents and bury them? -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/>