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Can you elaborate? Why would putting the technologies in the public domain not work?
by higherpurpose 12y ago
Can you elaborate? Why would putting the technologies in the public domain not work?
- sitkack 12y agoI think because everyone is free to extend the public domain via patents. So a researcher at Panasonic or Bosch could tweak something in the codec corpus and patent the tweak.
- e12e 12y agoIt would work for future patents, but I'm afraid it wouldn't work for future software -- the theory being that any non-trivial software will likely infringe on any number of patents. A collection of patents might help force cross-licensing, and so protect new (Free or not) software against existing patents (the assumption being that also holders of non-trivial software patents develop new software, and might infringe on one or more patents in the collection).