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A 25-year-old Brazilian video patent just expired, ending a lingering legal headache for Linux (www.xda-developers.com)
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[–] 4 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Ohh siemens ag are the baddies? I just bought their stock. I wouldnt have, had I known about this.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago

    As a general rule, somebody is going to patent every aspect of these formats. They haven't been demanding licensing fees from open projects, so they aren't being baddies. The fact that they could kept a lot of projects from including direct support.

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