Apple, Samsung, Sandisk sued over MP3
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| Little-known Texas MP3 Technologies is taking on Apple, Samsung
| Electronics Co and Sandisk with a patent-infringement lawsuit.
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http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/index.cfm?RSS&newsID=17317
Related:
MP3's Loss, Open Source's Gain
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| Now, with a cloud over the de facto industry standard, companies that
| rely on MP3 may finally have sufficient motivation to move on. And
| that raises some tantalizing possibilities, including a real long
| shot: Open-source, royalty-free formats win.
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http://www.wired.com/news/culture/music/0,72785-0.html?tw=wn_technology_1
You can taste the irony of Microsoft's patent positions on MP3 and Linux
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| Just when fear enjoys a energetic caddy (Ballmer) on Microsoft's
| repeated foray into Linux legal uncertainty, a real law suit with
| real trial lawyers and a real jury ironically slaps down Microsoft
| as a potential world-record intellectual property (IP) infringer.
| Yup, Microsoft the purported victim of Linux, is in fact the major
| MP3 format predator, or so says the assemblage of 12 informed peers.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/Gardner/?p=2419
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