Codec Buddy misleading.

[Yaakov Nemoy]

On Nov 11, 2007 9:37 PM, Bastien Nocera <bnocera at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On Sat, 2007-11-10 at 00:56 +0100, Mark wrote:
> > That map is interesting :) central europe seems to be committing heavy as well.
> >
> > Anyway.. i just found something interesting.
> > Sourceforge is hosted in the US right?
> >
> > the gstreamer plugins (bad, ugly and ffmpeg and some others) are hosted on SF..
>
> They're hosted on freedesktop.org.

The first patent holder that sues freedesktop.org is just going to
look like a bad guy.

a) The press will look really bad

b) freedesktop.org does not make million dollar annual profits from
these codecs the way Red Hat, Novell, or Mandrivia would and they
could never hope to seek the same level of damages

c) lawyers might take this case on good will, because of the high
profile nature, and the understanding of how open source works and is
good for the legal industry, and one of these lawyers might bust these
patents.

I hope these arguments are enough for people to realize that just
because it's open source does not mean Red Hat can *afford* to use the
software.

Cheers,
Yaakov