[CS-FSLUG] NI: YOU HAVE A STAKE IN THE SOFTWARE PATENTS ISSUE

[Fred A. Miller]

YOU HAVE A STAKE IN THE SOFTWARE PATENTS ISSUE

Last week I wrote about the multimedia patent minefield and how the
proliferation of digital media patents drove the BBC to the unorthodox
step of developing its own open source media coder/decoder software (or
"codec," for short). Called Dirac, after the British physicist Paul
Dirac, the first version is scheduled to be complete by the end of this
year, and experimental releases are already available.

http://newsletter.infoworld.com/t?ctl=E45100:1F5C3D3

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