[luau] Microsoft's New Linux Killing Plan

[Jimen Ching]

On Wed, 17 Apr 2002 beesond001 at hawaii.rr.com wrote:
>I thought this was particularly inflaming to me.  My question is this...
>How can M$ sue for patent infringement if the interface they use is
>described in an Internet RFC?

A standard, whether RFC or not, is allowed to use patented technologies.
MPEG4 is one such standard.  Actually, MPG3 also has patents (for encoding
side only, I believe).  That is why the Ogg Vorbis project exists.

--jc
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