The MP3-patent claims have never been challenged in court-or even in licensing negotiations, as Thomson’s Linde confirms. Vorbis faces competition from other audio formats, such as MP3. The Ogg format, however, is not named after Nanny Ogg, another Discworld character the name is in fact derived from ogging, jargon that arose in the computer game Netrek.
“On the other hand, if we defend ourselves successfully, they could lose the patent.” Vorbis is named after a Discworld character Exquisitor Vorbis in Small Gods by Sir Terry Pratchett. If there is any litigation, it’s going to come from a desire to put Vorbis out of business, he says. We don’t infringe on their patents, so we don’t have many worries.” Montgomery says he finds MP3 patents “annoying but not abusive.” The Fraunhofer patents “are fundamental to the way MP3 does things,” he says, “but the way MP3 does things is, thankfully, not the only way to do it. Terry Pratchett Small Gods Audiobook Free Online. These foundations continue to weather the storm caused by the corporate world’s rush to cash in.” Taking after the customizeds of a faith is not a lot the like placing supply in the power as well as grandness of a God. In contrast, “the foundations of the Internet today are built of a long, hardy history of open development, free exchange of ideas and unprecedented levels of intellectual cooperation. Closed-source protocols “exist by definition to serve the bottom line of a corporation,” he wrote in 1999.
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