-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Thursday 2007-02-01 at 00:23 -0600, M Harris wrote:
Depends on our definition of "obvious". If I start from scratch and write an algorithm capable of decoding an mp3 file I have done *nothing* different that writing an algorithm (text editor) that can decode a series of symbols (text) for displaying on a screen. One is called obvious and the other is called patentable... hogwash. The mp3 standard should not have a patent, nor should there be any licensing issues with *any* software based mp3 player.
Arguably the idea of using psychoacoustic models for compression of audio files is novel and not obvious. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFFwcrytTMYHG2NR9URAtoxAJ9mf1XxbhTl8hH88hmnmXVMW6JS9ACglAgQ FVYzdL9N/Ln/TAtuKnK6CdA= =9+Pm -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org