----- Original Message ----- From: "Kevin Walsh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, October 22, 2004 3:52 PM Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] G.729 licensing/patent?
| Benjamin on Asterisk Mailing Lists [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | > > Now, if someone had designed a chip that infringed the patents | > > then the registered patents would be enforceable. This is the real | > > reason for using "an apparatus" in the claims. In countries that | > > don't allow software and mathematical patents, "an apparatus" can | > > only mean hardware, and cannot be enforced against a software | > > implementation. | > > | > Don't worry about that because they may sue you nonetheless and the | > lawsuit will then bankrupt you anyway. You remind me of the guy on | > whose tombstone is written "Run over by a truck at a zebra crossing. | > His last words were 'But I have priority here!'" | > | Judgements, in England, are not automatically granted to the person | who can write the biggest cheque. A claim that "that software violates | my patent" wouldn't even make it to court. If, by some miracle, it did | make it to court then it'd most likely get thrown out within the first | five minutes. | | Under English law, the loser has to pay all reasonable legal costs | incurred by the winner, which helps to avoid nuisance cases from being | filed in the first place. | | Your views are biased upon the ridiculous legal system used in the US | courts, where favourable judgements are only awarded to those who can | afford them. You can't buy judgements in England. | | Correct me if I'm wrong, but we've been over this before. Perhaps | we should simply agree to disagree before some Muppet decides to step | in and embarrass himself with another $0.02 donation. | Just send it to china, have them copy it and make a mirror image of it rename everything, add a ton of useless stuff to make it twice the size and be done with it. (just like power supplys) :) _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
