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The post by Jason Garrett-Glaser (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1361442 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1361442) suggests this move might be strange f
by tel 16y ago
The post by Jason Garrett-Glaser (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1361442 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1361442) suggests this move might be strange for Mozilla since there's a high chance that VP8 will be patent trolled soon.
- tzs 16y agoAny particular reason to believe a patent troll will be involved, as opposed to a company suing over patents that it practices?
- tel 16y agoI suppose I didn't mean "patent troll", but instead spoke with a growing distaste for the way patent law is practiced. When I read that article I found difficulty locating where I stood between calling something a compression technique and just... math.
- tzs 16y agoI've never understood the "just math" argument. Couldn't a similar argument be made against all drug patents ("just chemistry"), all mechanical device patents ("just physics"), and so on?
- tel 16y agoOh, I agree that the argument applies more broadly than "just math". I'm also not sure what the ideal patent protects. It seems to lie somewhere on the discovery-invention axis, but I don't know where.
- ZeroGravitas 16y agoWell if they do anything related to the web in their line of business they're going to hampered by Google withdrawing the patent rights to use VP8 when they sue. Does Apple or any other consumer electronics manufacturer in MPEG-LA really want to be left out on the cold on that? This is just a special case of why Non-Practising Entities (i.e. trolls) are the terrorists of asymmetrical patent warfare.