trixter http://www.0xdecafbad.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Sprint Nextel is sueing vonage, voiceglo and theglobe.com for infringing > on VoIP patents. Sprint Nextel claims to have about 100 patents on VoIP > technologies. Does anyone know which ones this article is talking > about, and if so does asterisk have any of those features? > > The reason I am asking is that the article is vague, Vonage uses a > fairly standard codec set, I dont know about the others. So if its not > codecs I wonder if its something so generic that the patent would be > tossed out upon challenge. > > Anyone thinking about doing a VoIP business may want to get more info > before proceeding since they may not have the millinos vonage has to > fight this. > Marvellous. Another company with a monopoly over aspects of VoIP technology. I don't have the millions required to mount a defence in a North American court, so I should just consider myself lucky that I live in a free country.
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