{"id":113,"date":"2005-04-08T20:11:36","date_gmt":"2005-04-08T17:11:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/void.gr\/kargig\/blog\/?p=113"},"modified":"2005-04-08T20:16:32","modified_gmt":"2005-04-08T17:16:32","slug":"more-patent-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.void.gr\/kargig\/blog\/2005\/04\/08\/more-patent-problems\/","title":{"rendered":"More patent problems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent post in <a href=\"http:\/\/yro.slashdot.org\/article.pl?sid=05\/04\/07\/2027223\">slashdot<\/a> it is said that <a href=\"http:\/\/videolan.org\">vlc<\/a> is threatened with closure due to software patents. You can read more about it here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.videolan.org\/patents.html\">Videolan patent problem<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This patent madness will drive many opensource developers crazy in a very short time&#8230;I guess that it is getting more and more difficult to code something when you are in fear that someone may sue you for something that you just&#8230;thought. The problem is bigger for people coding multimedia applications. That&#8217;s where the most money from typical users are spent&#8230;and that&#8217;s where big companies base their success. You buy a dvd from your local store&#8230;but now you need to watch it with a decent player right ? Who has de-interlace support ? Who has DTS support ? and so on and so on&#8230; This is really getting nowhere&#8230;If companies persist on their patents each one is going to create a crippled player due to patents pending from the &#8220;opponent&#8221; companies&#8230;just crazy&#8230;and BAD for the users&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>shame&#8230;but that&#8217;s how things work lately&#8230;There was a time where software was cheap and hardware was trully expensive..this has changed completely nowdays&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>More links on patent problems:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.ffii.org\/?Videolan0411En\">DTS vs Videolan<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/kopete.kde.org\/patents.html\">Kopete patent problems<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent post in slashdot it is said that vlc is threatened with closure due to software patents. You can read more about it here: Videolan patent problem. This patent madness will drive many opensource developers crazy in a very short time&#8230;I guess that it is getting more and more difficult to code something [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"aioseo_notices":[],"views":3072,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.void.gr\/kargig\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.void.gr\/kargig\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.void.gr\/kargig\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.void.gr\/kargig\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.void.gr\/kargig\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.void.gr\/kargig\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.void.gr\/kargig\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.void.gr\/kargig\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.void.gr\/kargig\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}