Microsoft just got fined 1.5e9 dollars (yes, 1.5 billion with a "b")
for patent violations with respect to playing mp3's under ms-windows.

       http://business.guardian.co.uk/story/0,,2019691,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=1

My question is, how will this effect free/open formats like
ogg-vorbis?  Is the patent broad enough to effect vorbis?  Or
alternately will it make vorbis more attractive in the eyes of the
"mp3 player" manufacturers?  These are interesting times...

-wolfgang
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Wolfgang S. Rupprecht                http://www.wsrcc.com/wolfgang/
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