#softwarepatents — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #softwarepatents, aggregated by home.social.
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Total Wine Fails to Circumvent Texas Patent Suit in California https://www.diningandcooking.com/2604345/total-wine-fails-to-circumvent-texas-patent-suit-in-california/ #california #CaliforniaWine #DeclaratoryJudgment #dismissal #InvalidityDefense #MobileApplications #PatentableSubjectMatter #SoftwarePatents #venue #Wine
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Reading about the license cost increase of h264 (video codec) shows that open and royalty-free standards and codecs are important to be independent and inclusive.
In the very few cases, two or something, where I converted videos I also used h264, despite preferring something open like the modern AV1, just because I know basically all devices, like my laptop, support hardware-decoding of h264, while software-decoding of AV1 (no clue if my laptop can hardware-decode VP8/9) needs more power.
I should change that in the future, out of principle, as much as I value better old-device support.
That said: AV1 also has some companies claiming patents, so far without success. Bite patent trolls and software patents!
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@dalias Say you want the public to benefit from a video codec that's usable by free software in countries where MPEG-LA members hold patents. Would there have been a better way to go about this than how Google released WebM using On2's TrueMotion VP8?
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PERA Remains A Serious Threat To Efforts Against Bad Patents
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FSF: Chrome’s JPEG XL killing shows how the web works under browser hegemony - Enlarge / When Google, whose Chromium/Chrome-related browsers make up 8... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1932231 #freesoftwarefoundation #imagecompression #softwarepatents #googlechrome #imageformats #webstandards #compression #standards #chromium #firefox #mozilla #patents #biz #chrome #google #jpegxl #tech #fsf
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Dear @EU_Commission,
Every time you sell out to #Megacorps, it is for "the economy" (#SoftwarePatents, #EUCD, #TRIPS, #CETA,... ).
Every time you try to impose #surveillance #dictatorship, you do it to "fight" #terrorism or #sexualassault on #children.
You are doing it again, and again and again - no matter what we, the citizens of #Europe or even the courts say.
With #ChatControl, you #rape the victims once more by abusing their pain to justify your means.
PS: Welcome to the #Fediverse.