See also Monty Montgomery (original author of Ogg and founder of Xiph.org) commenting on this Slashdot post: http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/04/30/237238/Stev

See also Monty Montgomery (original author of Ogg and founder of Xiph.org) commenting on this Slashdot post: http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/04/30/237238/Steve-Jobs-Hints-At-Theora-Lawsuit http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/04/30/237238/Steve-Jobs-Hin... ---- "Thomson Multimedia made their first veiled patent threats against Vorbis almost ten years ago. MPEG-LA has been rumbling for the past few years. Maybe this time it will actually come to something, but it hasn't yet. I'll get worried when the lawyers advise me to; i.e., not yet. "The MPEG-LA has insinuated for some time that it is impossible to build any video codec without infringing on at least some of their patents. That is, they assert they have a monopoly on all digital video compression technology, period, and it is illegal to even attempt to compete with them. Of course, they've been careful not to say quite exactly that."