codec buddy pain

[seth vidal]

On Mon, 2007-11-05 at 17:47 -0800, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> Russell Harrison wrote:
> > Hopefully redirecting the users irritation to where it belongs: the US
> > Patent Office.  As long as we make it very clear that there are viable
> > alternative free formats, and that supporting the non-free formats IS
> > possible with existing open source code, it just isn't legal here in
> > the states.
> 
> This is a tremendously good point, I think.  In the FOSS community I 
> think we have a lot of resentment towards the patent system.  But it 
> won't be until our users start to build up a resentment towards the 
> system that we actually see anything happen.  And one sure way to do 
> that is to make the American consumers feel that the rest of the world 
> has an advantage over them due to the patent laws in the country they 
> live in.
> 

It's not just the US. The european patent system isn't vastly better,
either.

-sv