On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 18:58:42 +0200, Lionel Ulmer lionel.ulmer@free.fr wrote:
The big question is when the card does not support it and we need to do the decompression in software and send it back to the card.... In this case, do we violate it or not ?
Is it a patent for a hrdware solution, or for software? If software then in Europe, at least in Germany and others, it wouldn't matter because softwarepatents are not possible (and hopefully never will).
I wonder what the position of Wine is on such a thing. I guess the servers are US based so it would be a problem there. But it would be perfectly legal to host this in Europe. Or would there be a server which then must host stuff which is not allowed in the US because their absurd moneymaking policy (I can not call such things law, which only are there to protect the income of big companies).