>Patents on mp3 and RSA didn’t prevent them from being used everywhere When the people who spread adoption ignore the law, sure patents don't prevent anything,

>Patents on mp3 and RSA didn’t prevent them from being used everywhere When the people who spread adoption ignore the law, sure patents don't prevent anything, e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MP3#Internet_distribution https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MP3#Internet_distribution If you take a different example, say, improvements to JPEG, it's a lot harder for camera manufacturers to ignore patents. You're at the mercy of the patent holders, whose terms apparently haven't been reasonable enough for anybody to improve the compression in digital photos beyond what we had decades ago.