Not in the EU, no such thing as a software patent.
On 23 Mar 2007, at 04:55, Ian Hickson wrote:
On Fri, 23 Mar 2007, Robert Sayre wrote:
MPEG-4 is proprietary, because it is covered by patents.
I hate to be the one to break this to you, but CSS is covered by
patents,
HTML is covered by patents, the DOM is covered by patents,
JavaScript is
covered by patents, and so forth. Proprietary technologies are
those that
are under the control of a single vendor. MPEG-4 is not proprietary.
It's not available under royalty free licensing. But it is not
under the
control of a single vendor. That is the important difference, not
whether
the technology is patented or not.
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