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Re: [opensuse] a user call for attention on SuSE's mp3 support issue
- From: "Charles philip Chan" <cpchan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2007 17:40:58 -0500
- Message-id: <874pqadbb9.fsf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
On 28 Jan 2007, jsa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> The license is 2% of revenue derived. (Only after you earn some
> minimum amount). That amounts to free for a product that is not sold.
Cite?
> The point is that even license holders such as Real can not give away
> billions of copies of realplayer and still pay any fixed amount per
> copy and remain in business. They are not paying on anything they
> give away, as 2% of revenue = zero when there is no revenue.
They most likely made a "one time" pay-up:
http://www.mp3licensing.com/royalty/
Charles
--
"World domination. Fast"
(By Linus Torvalds)
> The license is 2% of revenue derived. (Only after you earn some
> minimum amount). That amounts to free for a product that is not sold.
Cite?
> The point is that even license holders such as Real can not give away
> billions of copies of realplayer and still pay any fixed amount per
> copy and remain in business. They are not paying on anything they
> give away, as 2% of revenue = zero when there is no revenue.
They most likely made a "one time" pay-up:
http://www.mp3licensing.com/royalty/
Charles
--
"World domination. Fast"
(By Linus Torvalds)
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